COLEOPTEBA. 
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SpERMOPHAGUS VIRENS (Dej. Catal.), Jelcel. 
Ovatus , antice apiceque attenuatus; niger, lomento late viridi-olivaceo 
subfiavescente tectus , pygidio abdomineque cinnabarino-ochraceis , 
fronte, rostro, ore antennisque nudis; thorace transverso , subsemicir- 
culare, ,basi medio acute producto ; scutello quadrato; elytris dorso 
postice subdeplanato-attenuatis, lateribus a medio ad apicem valde 
angustatis , apice singulatim rolundatis , supra tenuissime striatis; 
pygidio obliquo, apice dejlexo; tibiis posticis brevibus , apice intus 
spinis duabus magnis rujis armatis, externa longiore. 
Longit. (cap. infl., pyg. excl.) 2% lin. = 4$ millim.—Cum pygid. lin. 
== 5^ millim. 
Latit. med. elytr. 1^ lin. = H millim. 
Patria: Cayenna. 
Sperm, virens , Dej. Catal. 1837, p. 255. 
Smaller than Sp. canescens, Sch., and proportionally narrower, not de¬ 
pressed along the suture of the elytra. 
Head perpendicularly deflected, quadrate-subconic, somewhat extended 
behind the eyes, where it is a little narrower than long, narrowed in front 
by the eyes; punctulate, covered behind with a light olivaceous green pile, 
denudate and glossy in front. Eyes blackish, semilunar, emarginate ante¬ 
riorly, lateral, extending obliquely in front towards the rostrum, finely reti¬ 
culate. Rostrum with the mandibles somewhat narrower than the head, 
but between them nearly half the width of its base; apex truncate, mar- 
ginate; black, glossy, punctulate, glabrous. Labrum transverse, semicir¬ 
cular, or roundly truncate at the apex, black, glossy, glabrous, sides and 
base punctulate. Mandibles slightly extended beyond the labrum, longi¬ 
tudinally strigose; apex glossy. Palpi pitchy; the labial shorter and 
thinner. Other parts of the mouth flavescent. Antenna black; the five 
basal joints glabrous, rather glossy, the remainder blackish tomentose. 
Thorax transverse, subsemicircular; apex subtruncate ; sides roundly 
dilated towards the base ; posterior angles acute ; base oblique, subangulary 
produced in the middle, somewhat emarginate near the angles; produced 
lobe of the middle subtruncate in front of the scutellum ; inflected margin 
emarginate near the base, rounded near the apex, with the apical angles 
rounded; convex, finely punctulate, covered with a light olivaceous sub- 
flavescent green pile. 
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