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convex, transversely excavated below the basilar space, the hu- 

 meral callus thickened, strongly elevated ; sparingly clothed with 

 short, suberect, silvery-white scales; coarsely and deeply punc- 

 tured, the punctures indistinctly arranged in longitudinal stria? ; 

 interspaces rugose-granulose. Thighs cupreo-jeneous, the inter- 

 mediate pair less thickened than the others. Anterior epister- 

 num with its antero-internal angle free, the anterior margin 

 convex. 



Genus Mouhotia, u. gen. 



Corpus breviter ovatiim, valde convexum, supra glabnira. Caput in 

 thoracem penitus iramersum, perpendiculare ; ocwZis anguste ovalibus, 

 intiis sinuatis, vix prominiilis ; clypeo a facie distincte separate, antice 

 concavo-eraarginato ; antennis quam corporis dimidium longioribus, arti- 

 culis basalibus quatuor cylindricis, caeteris coinpressis, leviter dilatatis. 

 Thorax transversus, lateribus raarginatis, a basi ad apicem convergen- 

 tibus. Sctitellum semiovatum. Elytra thorace multo latiora, sub- 

 quadrato-ovata, vakle convexa, regulariter punctato -striata, huraeris 

 prominentibus. Pedes robusti ; femoribus, prfesertim anticis, incras- 

 satisj anticis et posticis spina brevi subtus armatis, intermediis mu- 

 ticis ; iibiis posticis quatuor extus ante apicem eraarginatis ; ungui- 

 culis acute appendiculatis. Prosternum transversura, subquadratum, 

 apice obtuse truncatum : episterni anfico angulo antero-interno libcro, 

 margiue antico convexo. Mesosternum breve, transversum. 



Type Mouliotia fcmorata. 



The transverse prosternum, the appendiculated claws, and the 

 emargination of the four hinder tibise, combined with the general 

 form, will at once distinguish this genus from Ti/popliorus and its 

 allies. 



Mouhotia femorata, n. sp. Breviter ovata, valde convexa, subgib- 

 bosa, nitida ; capite, thorace pedibusque nigris ; pectore piceo ; labro, 

 pleuris, abdomine elytrisque rufis ; his infra basin vix transversim de- 

 pressis, regulariter punctato-striatis, interstitiis planis ; thorace parce 

 punctato. Long. 2 lin. 



Hah. Cambodia, collected by the late Mr. Mouhot. 



Head scarcely longer than broad, nitidous, impressed with a 

 few deep punctures, front impressed in the middle with a narrow 

 elongate fovea ; upper orbit of eye narrowly excavated ; inter- 

 ocular spaces separated from the front by an oblique row of punc- 

 tures ; clypeus much longer than broad, campanulate, distinctly 

 separated from the face, its anterior margin concave-emarginate, 

 either angle of the notch produced into an obtuse tooth ; surface 



