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PSEUDAPOTKEPUS. 



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Sect. PSEUDAPOTEEPIDES. 



The single genus placed in this section has a 6-jointed funiculus, but it cannot be 

 included in the " Onycholipides " of Wollaston. Pseudapotrepus forms, as it were, a 



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connecting-link with the Acamptina, the presternum being angularly emargipate at the 

 apex and the rostrum deflexed. 





PSEUDAPOTREPUS, gen. nov. 



Rostrum stout, short, parallel-sided, deflexed in repose, abruptly separated from the large head, the serobes 

 obliquely descending to the eyes ; antennae inserted at the middle of the rostrum, the funiculus 6-jointed — 

 1 stout, as long as 2-4 united, 3-6 closely articulated, strongly transverse, and -widening outwards, — the 

 club ovate, abrupt, rather large, with the basal joint shining and as long as the rest united ; eyes lateral, 

 placed on the convex portion of the head, coarsely facetted, coalescent beneath ; prothorax somewhat 

 oval ; scutellum small ; elytra much wider than the prothorax, gradually narrowing from the base, 

 produced at the apex ; prosternum unimpressed down the middle, margined and deeply, angularly 

 excised at the apex; metasternum short; anterior coxae narrowly, the others widely, separated; 

 legs short; femora and tibiae stout, the tibiae strongly unguiculate; tarsi slender, the third joint 

 very little wider than the second, the claws minute, free ; body oblong-ovate, coarsely sculptured 



and setose. 

 Type, P. macrophthalmus. 



The type of this genus has somewhat the facies of the N.- American Apotrepus, Casey, 

 except that it is very much smaller. The short, 6-jointed funiculus, the inferiorly 

 coalescent, coarsely facetted eyes, which are placed on the convex portion of the head 

 (as in Micromimus) , and the ai 



deflexity of 



the angularly emarginate apex of the prosternum (allowing a 

 the rostrum in repose) are its chief characters. No other 



Cossonid has been described, so far as I am aware, with the eyes coalescent beneath, 



though they are subcontiguous in Tetratemnus. 



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1. Pseudapotrepus macrophthalmus, sp. n. (Tab. I. figg. 22, 22 a-c.) 



Moderately shining, piceous, the antennse, rostrum, legs, and elytra more or less ferruginous; sparsely 

 clothed with coarse, semierect, blunt, ochreous setse, those on the elytra arranged in a single row 

 along each interstice. Head and rostrum densely, coarsely punctate, the head shallowly trans- 



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versely grooved between the eyes, the rostrum slightly curved and about as long as the posterior 

 portion of the prothorax. Prothorax nearly as long as broad, feebly rounded at the sides, gradually 

 narrowing forwards, strongly constricted in front, coarsely, densely punctate. Elytra moderately long, 

 somewhat triangular, with rows of closely placed, coarse, subquadrate punctures, separated by very 

 narrow, slightly raised, sparsely uniseriate-punctate interstices, the outer strise entire. Beneath closely, 









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 Length 2, breadth 4 millim. 



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