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Yeux petits, peu saillants. Ce genre se place à côté d'Eu- 

 camptognathus. 



Nurus brevis Motsch., statura Âboxi , sed brevior, 

 capite duplo majore, thorace antice latiore; ob- 

 longus, convexus, nitidus, niger, thoracis elytrorurnque 

 îateribus, anguste viridi-metallicis; capite triangulare, po- 

 stice non constricto, glabro, inter antennas leviter biim- 

 presso; thorace capite vix latiore, transverso-quadrato, 

 postice paulo angustato, marginato, vix convexo, medio 

 canaliculato, basi sinuato, late transversim inflexo, angu- 

 lis anticis subacutis, prominulis, posticis rectis, apice ob- 

 tusis; elytris subopacis, thorace paulo latioribus, convexis, 

 subovatis, antice truncatis, leviter octo-sulcatis, sulcis j 

 biseriatim punctatis, interstitiis subelevatis; corpore sub- 

 tus glabro. Ç Long. 9% 1. — lat. elyt. 3 3 / 4 1. 



De la Nouvelle Hollande. 



Omalosoma carbonicolor Motsch., statura et color 

 Perci corsici, sed paulo major, elytris antice latio- 

 ribus; elongato-subellipticus, depressus, vix nitidus, im- 

 punctatus, niger; capite magno, oblongo triangulare, in- 

 ter antennas biimpresso, oculis minutis, vix prominulis, 

 antennis capitis longitudine paulo longioribus, attenuatis, 

 articulis quatuor primis glabris; thorace capite vix latio- 

 re, quadrato, postice leviter angustato, vix convexo, mar- 

 ginato, antice transversim biimpresso, medio canalicula- j 

 to, basi impresso, utrinque profunde foveolato, angulis 

 anticis subrotundatis, posticis rectis; scutello triangulare, 1 

 transversim inflexo; elytris thorace paulo latioribus, ellip- 

 ticis, antice truncatis, subpunctato-striatis, interstitiis fere 

 planis, 8-o carinato, 9-o crenato-punctato, humeris den- 

 tiforme productis, striola subscutellari vix distincta; in 



