TWO NEW SPECIES OF NOTOXUS (COLEOPTERA: ANTHICIDAE.)

Extract

Form elongate, moderately slender, sides of body parallel, three times as long as wide. Color usually nigro-piceous, at times more or less rufo-piceous ; prothorax varying from rufo-testaceous to rufo-piceous; palpi, antennae and legs rufo-testaceous, at times clouded with fuscus. Luster more or less shining throughout. In palerspecimens a rather broad, black transverse fascia is more or less distinct just behind the middle third of the elytra, this extends along the suture to base, gradually widening- in basal third to involve the inner one-halfof each elytron and scutellum: when the elytra are more or less rufotestaceous the apical area remains piceous and when entirely nigro-piceous the maculation may be more or less defined by brownish hairs. Pubescence for the most part pale throughout, decumbent, of moderate length, not coarse and not concealing the surface; beneath more closely recumbent, denser on the apical margins of abdominal segments and mesosternal parapleura; shorter, finer and closely appressed on the legs. Head and pronotum with quite long, bristling, sparsely scattered setiform hairs; those of the elytra semierect and of moderate length.