COLEOPTEKA. 
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Head short behind the eyes, substrangular, forming a sort of neck; 
there is a longitudinal ridge between the eyes, joined behind to a trans¬ 
verse subangular one placed behind these organs; punctate, covered with 
a fulvous or flavous pile ; black, pitchy or dark rufous. Eyes large, black, 
coarsely reticulated, more than semicircular, transverse, deeply and angu¬ 
larly einarginate anteriorly, obliquely approximating towards the rostrum. 
Rostrum rather small, half as long as the head and narrower than its 
hinder part, subquadrate, or a little narrowed towards the apex, which is 
truncate; punctate and clothed like the head, impressed at the middle of 
the base; rufous. Mandibles rising from the sides of the rostrum close to 
the eyes, widening it so as to make it as broad as the head behind; some¬ 
what exserted at the apex; dark rufous. Labrum transverse, linear, rufous, 
glossy. Antennae testaceous, reaching beyond the base of the thorax ; 
joints 5—10 subtriangular, gradually wider and acutely subserrate on the 
inside of their apex, the 9th and 10th however not broader than long, 11th 
subovate, acute. 
Thorax much shorter than broad, subconic ; apex truncate, wider than 
the neck, nearly half the width of the base; sides somewhat rounded, but 
increasing in width to the posterior angles, which are acute; base trans¬ 
versely truncate from the angles to the third of the breadth, then obliquely 
produced behind, then widely truncate to the middle; the wide median 
lobe having three impressions as in Br. obtectus (and many others), but 
shallower; moderately convex, scattered with rather deep and distant punc¬ 
tures ; each side above the base transversely impressed, also a small fovea 
(which does not exist on Br. obtectus) on each side of the middle of the 
disc is perceivable; coloured and clothed like the head. 
Scutellum small, subquadrate, with the posterior angles rounded, the 
apex scarcely emarginate, the middle longitudinally but obsoletely im¬ 
pressed. 
Elytra subovate, together sinuately emarginate at the base; shoulders 
callose, a little within the sides and the thoracic angles; sides roundly but 
moderately dilated from the base to the fourth part of their length, where 
is their greatest breadth, then straight to two-thirds of their length, afterwards 
roundly obliquely narrowed towards the apex, which is semicircularly 
rounded; sutural single obsolete ; slightly convex, subdeplanate longitudi¬ 
nally, thinly striate-subpunctate ; 1st stria close to the suture, 6th to 9th 
shortened anteriorly behind the shoulder, 10th (or marginal) following ex¬ 
actly the inflected margin, which is widely roundly dilated behind the 
