OOLEOPTERA. 
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subcallose, exactly situated behind the angles of the thorax, between the 
6th and 8th striae; sides a little obliquely extended behind the shoulders, 
then straight to beyond the middle, afterwards roundly narrowed towards 
the apex ; this is also rounded, but less so towards the sutural angle, which 
is obtuse; slightly convex; narrowly and rather deeply striate-punctate; 
punctures slightly impressed, approximate; interstices rugulose; black, 
covered with an ashy gray pile, here and there yellowish. 
Pygidium subconic, perpendicular, convex, punctate-rugulose ; black, 
with a slight ashy gray pile. 
Body beneath : — Pectus densely punctate-rugulose, black, shining, 
covered with a grayish pile, yellowish on the lateral and posterior margins. 
Pectoral laminae black, shining, strongly punctate-rugose, with the lateral 
margin only covered with a gray-yellowish pile. Abdomen finely and 
densely punctate-rugulose; black, slightly clothed with ashy gray pile. 
Legs moderate; anterior the shortest, posterior the longest; reddish, 
with the base of the posterior thighs blackish : anterior thighs slightly, pos¬ 
terior evidently, punctulate, the latter somewhat clavate, reaching the tip of 
the abdomen, edentate: anterior tibiae longer than the thighs, sublinear, 
or scarcely thickened towards the apex ; posterior shorter, rather thickened 
towards the apex, which is truncate, and has four short spines, one inside 
(the longest), one in the middle (being the continuation of a longitudinal 
median ridge), and two outside, close to each other (the smallest): anterior 
tarsi shorter than their tibise; posterior somewhat longer than their own, 
but much longer than the anterior, having their first joint very long, a little 
curved, and half of the total length. All the claws much incurved, uni- 
dentate near the base. 
Obs. —I have seen one specimen only of this small species, which, 
from the thorax being somewhat rounded at the sides, might be placed in 
Schonherr’s Stirps II.; but if we consider that he introduced in his Stirps 
I. such species as lucifugus , &e., having the thorax much shorter and 
more rounded, “ nullo modo conico,’’ recalling completely the form of the 
European species of Stirps II., Manip. I. Cent. II., et Manip. II., we re¬ 
gard this species as belonging to the first Stirps, where it finds its true 
allies, in general shape, in Br. Galegae , varius , imbricornis, &t\, &c. 
