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of the pubescence being golden-brown. ‘The eyes are densely pubescent. The tibial 
spurs are testaceous, the inner spur nearly twice as long as the outer one. The third 
and fourth joints of the antenne are slender, the fourth longer than the third and much 
narrower than the fifth. 
CONALIA. 
Conalia, Mulsant, Ann. Sc. Nat. Lyon, 1858, p. 313; Opusc. Ent. ix. p. 55; Emery, Essai 
Monogr. sur les Mordellides, in L’Abeille, xiv. p. 73 (1876). 
The chief characters given by Mulsant for this genus are :—“ Tibias postérieurs sans 
dent sur leur aréte dorsale; rayés sur leur face externe d’une hachure ou d’une ligne, 
naissant de leur angle postéro-externe et longitudinalement avancée au moins jusqu’a 
la moitié de la longueur des dits tibias, en sécartant graduellement un peu du bord 
externe.” This description was taken from a mutilated example (without hind tarsi), 
from Hungary, and the insect named C. baudii. A Central-American species merely 
differs from the above definition in having the single oblique ridge on the outer 
face of the hind tibie extending to fully three-fourths of their length. In the 
American insect the first and second joints of the hind tarsi have each a similar ridge 
to that on the tibie; the hind tibie (as in Glipodes) are without a short subapical 
ridge, and also without a dorsal carina (this being conspicuous in Glipodes); the 
labial palpi are long and slender, their apical joint very elongate and subacuminate ; 
the lobes of the maxilla are moderately long, the outer lobe only a very little longer 
and stouter than the inner one; the last joint of the maxillary palpi is moderately 
stout, and subcultriform in both sexes; the eyes are finely granulated ; the intermediate 
tibia and tarsi are equal in length; the penultimate joint of the four anterior tarsi is 
very feebly dilated and excavate ; the inner spur of the hind tibiz is very long, more. 
than twice the length of the outer one; the last dorsal segment or pygidium is very 
shert (much shorter than in C. daudii, Muls., and only a little longer than in Cothurus), 
broadly conical, very little longer than the hypopygium, and, owing to the curvature 
of the abdomen, not visible beyond the apex of the elytra. 
1. Conalia ebenina. (Tab. XIII. figg. 20; 20a, labium; 208, maxilla and 
maxillary palpus; 20, hind leg.) 
Moderately elongate, subparallel, black or brownish-black, uniformly clothed with dark brown pubescence. 
Head regularly. convex, very narrowly extended on either side behind the eyes; palpi pitchy-black ; 
antenne black with the basal joints a little lighter, short, joints 3 and 4 slender, 5-11 moderately dilated, 
5-10 subserrate, 5 very much broader than 4, the penultimate joints moderately transverse in the male, 
strongly so in the female, 11 a little longer than 10; prothorax transverse, deeply bisinuate at the base, 
the median lobe broadly produced and subtruncate behind, the sides sinuate behind the middle (parallel 
posteriorly if viewed from above) ; elytra very little narrower than the prothorax, convex, moderately long ; 
beneath with a little cinereous pubescence at the base of the first ventral segment and on the meta- 
sternum, for the rest clothed with dark brown pubescence ; pygidium exceedingly short and obtuse, 
scarcely longer than the hypopygium, not visible from above; legs black, the four anterior femora some- 
times a little lighter, the posterior tibial spurs piceous. 
Length to end of the elytra 3-3}, breadth 1-1} millim. (¢ 2.) 
