198 Descriptions of new CeyUn Coleoptera [no. 2, new series, 
which in a more or less compressed state is always perceptible : in 
some instances it is narrowed on one side. In the present species 
the head is hea'S'y and subglobose. The eyes are large, prominent 
and coarsely granulated. The antennae are inserted distant from 
each other under two protuberances of the anterior part of the fore- 
head. The club is 4-jointed, the joints composingit, being flat at the 
base, and, with the exception of the last, obliquely cut away at the 
apeXjthe last itself being conic. The maxill. palpi have joint 3 rather 
elongated and of the form of ?.n inverted cone, joint 4 middling, 
acuminated. The thorax is of a rounded oval shape and rather 
strongly narrowed towards the apex. 'The scutellum is obsolete. 
The elytra have the usual rudimentar}' coitse at the shoulders and 
are separately rounded oflf at the apex. The legs are middling, 2 
posterior coxae inserted close together, trochanters all simple, tibiae 
slightly bent at the base, narrowed and subcylindric at the tip, the 
4 anterior ones hairy, tarsi with joints 2-3 subequal, the first a 
little longer and the 4th shorter, the 2 anterior ones slightly con- 
tracted. I include in this species some individuals which slightly 
differ from the foregoing description, being more robust, covered 
more densely and with longer hair, especially on the occiput and 
thorax, with the latter rather obconico-ovate and the costse of the 
elytra more distinct, and moreover occasionally of a chestnut color. 
36. ScydnicBnus puhescens. X. 
S. prascedente gracilior: long. corp. | lin. Antennae art. 3 et 4, 
5 et 6 inter se subaequalibus, subcylindricis, 7* secundo paulo mi- 
nore, fortiter cylindrico, 8-10 subglobosis, cum 11° conico clavam 
formantibus. Palpi maxill. art. 3° inverte conico, 4° minuto. 
Mandibulae tenues, medio obtuse obsoleteque unidentatae, basi ab- 
rupte dilatatae. Thorax conicus, latitudine hand longior, basi 4- 
foveolatus. Elytra et pedes praecedentis, tibiis tamen apice leviter 
arcuatis. 
Less robust than the former and further distinguished from it by 
the 7th antennal joint (the one preceding the club) which is of a 
strongly cylindric shape, by the minuteness of the last joint of the 
maxillary palpi, the obtuse and nearly obsolete tooth of the man- 
