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a Family of Coleopterous Insects. 
Nova species. Subcylindricus, toto ferrugineo testaceus, puncta- 
tissimus, nitidus, subpubescens. Caput latum, tliorace paulb 
minus, supra convexum, spind erects verticali, acutd, seti- 
gerd ; margine antico vix emarginato ; post oculos in col- 
lum contractual. Oculi magni laterales. Antenna articulo 
basali crasso, dilatato, clavdque brevi latd thorace pauld 
majori, subovatd, basi latiori, truncate et externh in spinam 
products, supra parhm convexa irregulari, eminentiis dua- 
bus (sc. basi et post medium,) subtCis mult6 convexiori 
praesertim in regionem basalem, margine omni acuto. Tho- 
rax capite pault) latior, subconvexus et quasi bipartitus, 
portio antica major elevatior, latior, lateribus rotundatis et 
e portione posticd impressione transversd tenui (at in medio 
profundiori, antich posticeque paulb productd) separata, 
portio postica brevis depressa, lateribus fert; rectis vel pos- 
tice paululdm olilique protensis. Elytra thorace latiora, 
subcylindrica, abdominis apicem non tegentia, oblongo- 
quadrata, nitida, evidenter punctatissima. Pedes breves, 
femoribus tibiisque compressis. 
I am indebted toM. le Comte Dejean for permission to describe 
and figure this species from his cabinet. It is with considerable 
doubt that I place it in the genus Platyrhopalus, (although the 
structure of the thorax and the flatness of the antennre approach 
the typical species of that genus,) the cornuted head appearing 
to give it an affinity with the Paussi, such as P.spharocerus, $c . : 
but from a note made in Paris, I have a slight idea that the 
labial palpi have the joints of equal length. 
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