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entirely covered with ochreous-yellow pile on the sides, and with a silky 
grayish down, which extends over the middle of the abdomen, the coxae 
and the base of the thighs, leaving scarcely interrupted fuscous lines ; on 
the sides of the abdomen this yellow pile is rarer, forming small spots more 
or less aggregate, as on the elytra. 
Legs moderate, nearly equal. Thighs clavate, edentate, the posterior 
the thickest; clothed with yellow pile. Tibice rather shorter than the 
thighs, straight, dilated towards the tip, which is truncate; intermediate 
the thinnest; four anterior densely clothed with yellow pile, posterior fus¬ 
cous at the base and widely brown at the apex, remainder yellow. Four 
anterior tarsi brown fuscous, broad, especially those of the first pair,—pos¬ 
terior thin ; 1st joint yellow, with the base and tip, as well as the 2nd 
and 3rd, entirely fuscous ; all the terminal joints pale yellowish. Claws 
unidentate beneath. 
Ph^enithon mediocris, Jekel. 
Ovatus , piceus, subtus rostroque albido—supra fundo fusco-nigro tomen- 
tosus ; capitis lineis tribus subconnexis , thoracis lineis irregularibus 
partim anastomosantibus , elgtrorum plaga suturali basali postice 
extus utrinque ampliata maculaque magna irregulari subsuturali 
mox pone medium albescentibus; his prceterea maculis tribus dor- 
salibus unaque apicali ochraceis ornatis ; pygidio oblongo-subconico , 
obliquo-subporrecto, brunneo , parce albido-squamoso; pedibus al- 
bidis; tibiis omnibus apice, tarsorum anteriorum dimidio postico 
posticorumque maxima parte piceis; unguiculis subtus unulentatis. 
Longit. (cap. infl.) usq. ap. elytr. lin. = 4 7 ^ millim.—usq. ap. pygid. 
lin. = 5 t | millim. 
Latit. lj 1 ,, lin. — 2* 0 millim. 
Nearly as large as Ph. semigriseus, Germ., Sch., but much narrower, 
more elongate in form, having the pygidium proportionally much longer, 
oblique-subhorizontal, by which characters it pertains to Schonherr’s 
Stirps L, whilst by the convexity of its elytra, and the antennal groove 
being linearly produced beneath, it ought to be placed near to the former 
species, in Stirps II, 
