COLEOPTERA. 
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$ Antennis corpore subtriplo longioribus. 
9 Antennis longitudine corporis. 
Longit. corp. (cum rostr.) max, indiv. 8-g-—9 lin. = 18—20 millim. 
Latit. elytr. 2|—lin. — 5—6 millim. 
Patria : Guinea lusitanica ; D. Bocande; D. Deyrolle. 
This species very closely resembles Deut. nebulosus , Irnhoff, Sch., but 
M. Deyrolle having received a number of specimens of this as well as 
of the former, and constant differences existing between them, without 
any intermediate links, I consider the species distinct. 
Body , although varying very much in size, generally smaller, more 
convex and narrowed, never entirely tomentous on the thorax and elytra, 
but adorned with more or less connected spots, leaving large denuded 
patches; the tomentosily thicker than in Deut. nebulosus , and yellowish 
or grayish fulvous. 
Antenna proportionally thinner, with the second joint in the males not 
bisinuate, as in Deut. nebulosus , but nearly straight, not so broad, and not 
gradually widened towards the apex; indeed subequal in width from the 
base nearly to the apex, and much more abruptly and shortly (subtriangu- 
larly) clavate. 
Rostrum evidently shorter in both sexes. 
Thorax narrower, less widely depressed on the disc, more strangulated 
and subtubular at the apex, which is less deeply emarginate in the middle ; 
posterior ridge, although sinuated, much less distant from the base at its 
sides, and scarcely interrupted in its middle. 
Elytra proportionally more convex, elongate and parallel; shoulders 
more angular and callose; strise having their punctures more distant and 
deeper, and the interstices with more distant and coarser rugosities, &c. 
Obs .—M. Deyrolle first proposed for this species the name of Decata- 
phanes pictus. It is, however, a Deuterocrates, the Decataphanes of 
M. Imhoff being a very different genus: it is also more convenient tu 
apply to it a new specific term. 
