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elytra; it is very slightly emarginato-sinuate by the prolongation of the 
posterior carina at the sides, the anterior lobe of which is very slightly ob¬ 
lique, subangular ; the apex is proportionally less narrowed than in all the 
other species, except, perhaps, Slen. testudo , with which it has another 
point of resemblance,—the obtuse narrowing and the regular convexity of 
the hinder part of the elytra. 
The general colour of the body is lighter than in any other species of 
the genus, being brown or dark rufous; the ground-clothing is of a 
light brownish chocolate hue, darker beneath. The thorax is rather 
densely mixed with whitish yellowish. The elytra have the ordinary basal 
patches and the posterior fasciform nebulosity formed of whitish pile; and 
the tessellations of the suture and alternate interstices, which are slightly 
convex, are of a darker brown alternated with obsolete whitish dots, only 
observable on the suture. The body beneath and legs are mixed with 
a minute distant white pile, and the first joint of the tarsi only is densely 
clothed with light fulvous hairs ; the other joints have a pale pile slightly 
scattered over them. 
* Stenocerus frontalis, Sch ., Gen. et Sp. Curcul. t. 1, pars. 1, pag. 
169, &c. Brasilia. 
* Stenocerus verticalis, Jekel. 
Ovato-subellipticus , piceo-brunneus, tomento obscure brunneo tectus ; mar - 
gine interiori oculorum lineolaque hasali verticis , thoracis punctis 
lineolisque nonnuilis , elgtrorum sutura interstitiisque alternis con- 
vexiusculis interrupte articuloque basali tarsorum jlavo-fulvescentibus ; 
rostro obsolete tricarinato; thorace magis elongate, conico , lateribus 
haud sinuato, ante basin subangulato , supra bicanaliculato; elytris 
fusco jlavoque tessellatis , ad suturam deplanatis, versus apicem angus- 
tatis ; corpore subtus albido-Jlavescente irrorato. 
Patria : Brasilia, Dom. Dupont. 
This species is extremely close to Sten . varipes of Schonherr; it 
is larger ; its males are larger and broader proportionally than the females 
of that species : the rostrum is less deeply emarginate in the middle of the 
apex: the thorax is proportionally more elongate and less angular at the 
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