COLEOPTERA. 
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Nearly allied to Br. Pescaprce, Sch., of which I was formerly inclined 
to consider it a variety; but from being only half the size, its elytra less 
impressed along the suture, more rounded at the apex, and having a white 
oblique band, I think it sufficiently distinct. Its size is exactly that of 
Br. Bixce, Sch., which it resembles also in shape. 
Body shortly oval, very thick, truncate at the apex, with the pygidium 
perpendicular. 
Head between the eyes conic, acutely elevated in the middle ; black, 
punctulate. Eyes large, obliquely approaching towards the rostrum. Ros¬ 
trum (with the mandibles somewhat exserted) a little longer than the head, 
pitchy black, finely punctulate, subglabrous. Mouth beneath rufous, with 
the maxillary palpi pitchy. Antennae half the length of the body, reaching 
beyond the base of the thorax; 1st to 3rd joints rufous; the 1st long, thick, 
curved ; 2nd short, thin, obconic ; 3rd twice as long as the 2nd, not more 
than half the length of the 1st, subconic; the remainder pitchy brown, to- 
mentose, gradually more serrated inside to the 9th; the 10th and 11th a 
little less transverse. 
Thorax subconic, shorter than the width of the base, three times nar¬ 
rower at the apex; sides nearly straight, or slightly rounded; posterior 
angles acute ; base oblique, sinuate, produced in the middle, which is lo- 
bated ; above rather convex, with two longitudinal convex elevations, sepa¬ 
rated from each other by a deep and narrow channel from the base to the 
apex ; at each side of these elevations is a canaliform longitudinal impres¬ 
sion, deeper at the base, evanescent towards the apex ; covered with a 
brown-grayish pile, except on the elevations, which are subglabrous and 
distinctly transversely rugose ; the rugosities of the remaining parts are 
less distinct, and hidden by the pile. 
Scutellum subtriangular, pitchy, covered with a light brown pile. 
Elytra when united subquadrate, somewhat longer than wide, a little 
narrower at the apex, which is obtusely rounded ; base emarginate in the 
middle for the reception of the produced part of the thorax, then slightly 
obliquely produced towards the sides, where they are as wide as the 
thorax; somewhat obliquely dilated at the shoulders, which are rounded, 
rather callose ; thence the sides slightly decrease in width towards the 
apex ; slightly depressed along the suture; punctate-substriate, the punc¬ 
tures remote ; interstices plane, except the 2nd, which is convex, especially 
near the base, and an elongate callosity, being the continuation of the 
shoulder, crossing rather obliquely the 6th and 7th interstices, evanescent 
