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POLYDROSODES,—ANYPOTACTUS. 21 
1. Polydrosodes conicus, sp.n. (Tab. IX. figg. 13, 13 a.) 
Black, the antenne in part ferruginous; uniformly clothed above and beneath, the legs included, with small 
greyish-green scales, and also set with minute short hairs. Rostrum parallel-sided above to near the 
apex, the nasal plate short, with a v-shaped ridge behind. Joint 1 of the funiculus elongate, about one- 
half longer than 2, 3-7 gradually decreasing in length. Prothorax rather convex, the obliquely con- 
verging sides in a line with those of the head. Elytra elongate, widening to beyond the middle, finely 
punctate-striate, the interstices faintly, irregularly, uni- or biseriate-punctate. 
Length 54, breadth 2 millim. 
Hab. Mexico (ex coll. Jekel). 
One specimen, kindly presented to us by Signor A. Solari. It must have been 
captured many years ago, but there is no reason to doubt the Mexican habitat, 
similarly labelled examples of other species having been found in various collections 
from Mexico. 
Group ANYPOTACTINA. 
This group includes a few Tropical-American forms related to the Polydrosiua, but 
with the tarsal claws free. They have the articular surface of the posterior tibie 
terminal or slightly ascending ; the anterior tibize serrulate or unarmed on their inner 
edge; the femora clavate, toothed in Anypotactus, unarmed in the other genera; the 
prothorax without definite setiform vibrisse; the mandibles with a conspicuous 
truncated process in front in Polydacrys, wanting in the other genera; the mentum 
moderately broad or small, incompletely covering the maxille ; the rostrum with a 
sharply-defined triangular nasal plate, except in Prepodellus, where it is very short and 
inconspicuous ; and the wings fully developed. 
ANYPOTACTUS. 
Anypotactus, Schonherr, Gen. Cure. vi. 1, p. 299 (1840) ; Lacordaire, Gen. Col. vi. p. 71. 
The type of this genus is A. evtlis, Boh., and a second species was subsequently 
added by Faust. Anypotactus is closely related to Polydacrys, but differs from it in 
having the femora sharply toothed, the rostrum concave at the sides above (leaving 
the descending scrobes partly exposed in the dorsal aspect), and the scape of the 
antenne reaching to the front of the prothorax. The mandibles are without a definite 
truncated process in front. 
1. Anypotactus bicaudatus, sp.n. (Tab. IX. figg. 14, l4a, 2; 15, ¢ .) 
Moderately elongate, piceous or obscure ferruginous; densely clothed with brown scales, the elytra with a 
common, paler or cinereous, subapical fascia preceded by a narrow curved black band, and some blackish 
and cinereous markings on the rest of their surface ; the upper surface also set with numerous blunt, 
stiff, suberect sets, which are uniseriately arranged down each elytral interstice, the legs setulose. 
Head and rostrum together a little longer than the prothorax, finely punctate, the rostrum constricted 
and shallowly grooved between the antennz and with a curved, transverse groove at the base, the nasal 
plate transversely triangular; eyes prominent, large; antenne long, joints 1 and 2 of the funieulus 
