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INSECTA SAUNDEBSIANA. 
broader than the others; black, covered with a very short dull black pile, 
wanting here and there, especially on the shoulders, which are rather 
glossy; marked with, 1st, a, large irregular fascia occupying the middle, 
descending a little from the margin to nearly the middle of the width, then 
parting again somewhat above, running again obliquely to the suture, its 
anterior and posterior edges being very irregular; 2nd, an apical macula 
somewhat crescent-shaped, roundly and thickly hooked near the suture, 
its convexity following the edges of the apex. 
Pygidium oblique, oblong-subconic (about f lin. in length), apex 
rounded, punctate-rugose, covered with a whitish pile. 
Body beneath finely punetate-rugulose, clothed with a whitish gray 
pile, thinner and lighter on the abdomen. 
Legs moderate sized : the posterior the longest and thickest, very- 
finely punctulale-rugulose ; black ; slightly clothed with a whitish sub¬ 
silky scattered pile, more condensed on the thighs ; the latter moderately 
clavate, the posterior reaching beyond the base of the terminal ring of 
the abdomen. 
Genus BASITROPIS, Jekel. 
Antennce mediocres, medio thoracis superantes, lateribus rostri infra 
propeque oculos insertae, 11-articulatse; funiculo 8-articulato : articulo lo 
ovato-clavato, crasso, 2—5 subaeque longis et latis, primo brevioribus, 
cylindrico-conicis (2o tamen subclavato), lalitudine certe dimidio longiori- 
bus, 6—8 brevioribus, successive latioribus magisque transversis, 6o subtri- 
angulari, apice praecedentibus paullo latiore, longitudine latitudinis, 7o 
longitudine dimidio, 8o duplo-latioribus, intus angulariter ampliatis, sub- 
cyathiformibus, clavae subadpressis et conjunctis. Clava lata, breviter 
ovata, 3-articulata: articulo 2o breviore, lo et 3o subaeque longis, hoc 
angustiore, apice subconico-rotundalo. 
Caput pone oculos paullo exsertum, per illos versus apicem frontis 
angustatum. 
Oculi plus quam semirotundati, anterius late emarginati, supra infra- 
que caput mordentes. 
Rostrum latitudine capitis, sed brevius, transversum, lateribus versus 
apicem baud angustatum, apice medio subtriangulariter emarginatum. 
Scrobs antennalis lateralis, infra marginem superam rostri inserta, ibique 
