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III. Corpus breviter ovatum, convexum. Cuput pro ratione breve 
et erassura, latitudine basali partim longius, convexum. 
Oculi majores, magis prominentes. Thorax amplus, con- 
vexus; apice oblique truncatus, margine simplici, non 
impressa. Elytra subparallela, brevia, convexa, postiee late 
obtuse rotundata, humeris rotundatis. Pedes omnia sub- 
aequales, crassi: femoribus muticis; tibiis subrectis oblique 
truncatis. ( Ophthalmolabus , Jekel). African group. 
Typus : Attelabus morio, Sch. viii. ii. p. 361. Natal. 
Congen.: Ophthalmolabus Goudotii, Jekel ,* fyc. 
I have seen some other species of this group. 
Euops (Synaptops) Nietnert, Jekel. 
Ovato-subconicus , niger, squamulis virescenti-ceneis aut aureis metallicis 
supra parcius subtus densius tectus; scutello Icete viridi—aut 
aureo—splendido ; rostro brevi , capite perpendicularly sub triangu¬ 
laris parum deplanato , obsolete punctulato , metallico-nitidissimo ; 
capite punctato ; thorace subconico , supra transversim strigoso , 
medio obsolete transversim impresso , lateribus scrobiculato; elytris 
punctato-strialis , interstitiis latiusculis , subplanis , sublcevibus ; 
pectore laxe prof unde — pygidio crebrius — abdomine leviter — 
punctatis. 
* Euops ( Ophthalmolabus) Goudotii. — Breviter ovatus, convexus, 
subnitidus; fusco-hrunneus, antennis elytris pedibusque rufescenti-cas- 
taneis; capite, thorace corporeque subtus obscure senescenti micantibus; 
rostro brevi, triangulari, deplanato, sublaevi, nitido; capite basi obsolete 
strigosulo; thorace amplo subconico, supra obsolete substrigoso — late¬ 
ribus profunde scrobiculato — punctato; elytris profunde subtexato- 
punctatis, interstitiis angustis elevatis ; pectore laxe profunde — pygidio 
confertius raediocriter — abdomine remote—punctatis. Long, (rostr. 
excl.) 2-^; elytr. 1^,. Lat. hum. 1^ mill. Madagascar. D. Dupont. 
(Goudot). Mus. D. Bowring. 
