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tis; elongata, gibbosa, nitida, nigra, femoribus brunneis, 

 * tibiis tarsisque subcyaneis, antennarum articulis 3 et 4 

 apice rufo-testaceo; capite exserto, postice valde coar- 

 ctato, glabro; thorace capite dimidio angustiore, antice 

 posticeque constricto, medio ovato, glabro, linea média 

 distincta, altéra utrinque marginali valde arcuata impres- 

 so; scutello triangulari, inaequâle, lateribus subarcuatis; 

 elytris capitis latitudine, fere glabris, longitudine diinidio 

 corporis, antice valde angustatis thorace aequalibus, scin- 

 duliformi rugosis, medio subito gibboso ovatis, sparsim 

 punctulatis punctis lateraliter transversim conjunctis po- 

 stice minutissimis, apice attenuato utrinque subnodosim 

 prodacto; corpore subtus glaberrimo. Long. 8 1 / 2 1. — 

 lat. elyt. l 2 / 3 1- 



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Tricondyla brunnipes Motsch. Bull. d. Mosc. 1861. p. 

 629. statura Tr. cyanipedi Eschh., sed color niger, 

 pedibus brunneis; angustata, gibbosa, nitida, nigra, 

 tarsis infuscatis, antennarum articulis: 2, 3, 4 et 5 ver- 

 sus apicem lato rufo-testaceis; capite gracile, postice val- 

 de coarctato, glabro, canalibus frontalis distinctis, labris 

 dentibus anticis vix prominulis; thorace capite fere duplo 

 angustiore, antice posticeque constricto, medio oblongo- 

 ovato, glaberrimo, linea média nulla, laterali indistincta; 

 scutello magno, triangulari, subconvexo, paulo margina- 

 to; elytris capite paulo angustioribus, fere glabris, dimidio 

 corporis paulo longioribus, antice attenuatis thorace sub- 

 aequalibus, sparsim rugoso-punctatis, medio subito ovali- 

 bus, subtiliter sparsim punctulatis, apice attenuatis, sub- 

 productis Ç . Long. 6 1. — lat. elyt. 1 1. 



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