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INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
Genas STENOCEKUS, Sch. 
Stenocerus fulvitarsis, Germ., Sch. Brasilia. 
Stenocerus fulvitarsis, Germ. Ins. Sp. l,p. 174, No. 288 (Anthribus). 
Sch. t. 1, pars. 1, pag. 168, &c. 
* Stenocerus testudo, Jekel. 
Breviter ovatus, sat deplanatus , niger, nigro-subholosericeo squamosus ; 
capitis lineis duobus basalibus intra-ocularibus , thoracis area magno 
basali , elytrorum plaga magna dorsali communi e maculis nigro- 
holosericeis subtessellata tarsisque (articulo ultimo excepto ) fulvo- 
ochraceo squamosis; thorace valde transverso , lateribus profunde 
bisinuato ; elytris brevibus , versus apicem paullo angustatis, dorso 
anterius late , parum profunde deplanato-impressis, postice convexis , 
sutura interstitiisque alternis convexioribus , nigro tessellatis. 
Var. /3. Lineolis capitis arcuque thoracis deficientibus, plaga communi 
elytrorum postice et lateribus minus determinata: signaturis pal- 
lidioribus, paleaceo-sulphureis. 
Synon.: Stenocerus robustus , Dej., sec. Dupont. 
Patria: Cayenna, Dom. Dupont: Mus. Jekel (var. /3.). (Typus in 
Mus., Dom. Guerin). 
This species is certainly the shortest of the genus, having in breadth 
f^ths of its length (head and rostrum excepted). It is with Sten. brunnescens 
the most convex ; the darkest tomentose ; its ground clothing being of a 
fine black velvet-like hue. 
Head shorter and more convex than in Sten. fulvitarsis , slightly 
extended behind the eyes, transversely and shallowly impressed between 
their hinder edge. Eyes less elongate, longitudinally convex, extended 
laterally, less advanced on the forehead, which is shorter and broader. 
Rostrum also shorter and broader than in the female of Sten. fulvitarsis , 
nearly one-fifth shorter than the thorax (mandibles excluded), and not 
longer than the head at the place of and including the eyes, more than a 
