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THE COLEOPTERISTS BULLETIN 58(4), 2004605Figs. 2–4.Dorsal, ventral, and lateral photographs of Peploglyptus mulu Caterino.flattened slightly to rounded apex, lacking conspicuous setae; submentum strongly deflexed,anteriorly with transverse row of about 3 elongate setae near anterior margin, disk with reticulatemicrosculpture (mentum, maxilla, and labium lacking conspicuous microsculpture); mentum flat,anterior margin weakly tridentate, with prominent median tooth, but with anterolateral corners onlyfaintly angulate; disk of mentum with about 3 elongate setae in irregular arrangement near middleand with much finer setae sparsely scattered throughout; basal labial palpomere very short,penultimate about 3 times as long, and expanded to apex, terminal labial palpomere about 1.25 timesas long as penultimate, slightly swollen basally, tapered to narrowly rounded apex, with few finesetae on outer surface. Antennal insertion immediately anterior to dorsal margin of eye, somewhathooded dorsally, open ventrally; scape (Fig. 9) as long as eye, ovoid in cross section, widest justbeyond middle, with an angulate emargination at posterior apex, a single elongate seta arising fromthe inner apex; scape in repose resting along anterior margin of eye, its inner surface arcuate andshallowly concave, its anterior surface with reticulate microsculpture and very fine setae; pedicel(Fig. 9) inserted in angulate posteroapical emargination of scape, abruptly curved and widened frombase, about one-fourth length of scape, with sparse setae subequal in length to its diameter;