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bakre benens tibier äro linjesraala, fint tandade, farsernas 5:e led 
nästan dubbelt så lång som 2:a. Mesosternum med en köl i mid- 
ten. Meso- och metapleura ej stora. 
1. N. Colonoides: Ovatus, convexus, subnitidus, minus 
tenuiter pubescens, niger, antennis pedibusque ferru- 
gineis ; elytris baud striatis, apice acuminato pice- 
scenti. 
Catops Colonoides Kraatz in Stett. Ent. Zeit. XII. 
169. 
Corpore ovato, convexo, postiee attenuato, minus te- 
nuiter pubescenti, subnitido distinctus. Caput parvum, in- 
sertum, deflexum, nigrum, ore ferrugineo. Antennse pro- 
thoracis basin vix attingentes, ferruginese, clava discreta 
fusca; articulo l:o 2:o fere breviore, hoc 3:o sesqui lon- 
giore, 4—6 transversis, 5:o contiguis fere majore. Pro- 
thorax transversus, basi coleopteris latitudine sequalis, fere 
late emarginatus, angulis posticis acutis productis ; lateri- 
bus apicem versus angustatis; apice truncatus, angulis 
anticis deflexis rotundatis , diseo longitudinaliter levi- 
ter, transversim fortiter, praesertim antice convexus, 
creberrime subtiliter, certo situ substrigoso-punctatus, 
dense pubescens. Scutellum triangulare. Elytra protho- 
race triplo longiora, apicem versus angustata, convexa, 
nigra, apice indeterminate picea : disco sat convexa, niti- 
dula, sat dense minus tenuiter pubescentia, stria suturali 
distincta, transversim evidenter, minus crebre strigosa. 
Corpus subtus nigrum, pedibus ferrugineis. 
Sällsynt; funnen vid Lindholmen i Skåne af Doctor G. F, 
Möller. 
