COLEOPTERA. 
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Nearly as broad as Pk. gravis and Ph.ftguratus , but much shorter, 
having the thickset shape of Ph. pemigriseus, Germ., Sch., and belonging 
to the same Scbonherrian division (Stirps II.), but being twice the size of 
the latter. 
Head along the eyes nearly as long as its posterior width, which 
is sensibly less than across these organs, from their being laterally rounded; 
received into the thorax; front and vertex longitudinally convex, the 
former transversely flat, conically narrowed towards the rostrum by the 
eyes; punctate-rugulose ; black, with the orbits of the eyes and many 
small spots densely clothed with fine yellow-subochreous pile. Eyes 
large, longitudinally ovate, placed rather obliquely and approaching ante¬ 
riorly, slightly emarginate behind the lateral margin of the rostrum; 
rather convex, finely reticulated, pitchy.black; two-thirds of their trans¬ 
verse diameter being observable on the upper side, occupying more than 
half of the width limited by them. Rostrum nearly half the width of the 
head, and scarcely narrower at the base; sides first shortly straight, then 
rather roundly narrowed and sinuated to the apex, which is emarginate in 
the middle; this contour is margined, the margin ceasing very near 
the eye, but not extending to the einargination ; inflexed sides scarcely de¬ 
creasing in thickness towards the apex, flat, with the tip obliquely trun¬ 
cate, their inferior margin angulated; antennal groove subcircular, deep, 
placed under the dilated base of the upper margin, very near the eyes, but 
not margined by them, more distant from the apex, subacutely extended 
beneath. Labrum minute, raised near the apex, which is rather rounded ; 
rufous. Antennae rather short, reaching near the middle of the thorax, slen¬ 
der: the 1st and 2nd joints the thickest of the funiculus, 1st the longest, sub- 
clavate; 2nd subovate ; 3rd to 8th nearly equal in thickness, not quite half 
the thickness of the two basal, having together the appearance of a very slen¬ 
der cylinder ; 3rd and 4th longest, nearly as long as the 2nd, cylindric-sub- 
clavate ; 5th shorter than these, subconic, but longer than wide ; 6th shorter, 
more conic, scarcely longer than wide ; 7th the shortest, transversely ovate 
or sublenticular; 8th conic, longer and thicker than the 6th, applied 
to the club, which is 3-articulate, oblong, one-third shorter than the funi¬ 
culus, joints remote, the two first angularly dilated inside at the apex ; 1st, 
subtriangular; 2nd shorter, transverse, subcyathiform ; 3rd the longest, 
nearly as wide at the base as in the middle, narrower than the lip of the 
preceding joint and terminated acutely; black, glossy, with the club dull 
fuscous tomentose. 
