+ $ 
Mr. KirBx’s Century of Insects. 
i : This genus is distinguished from all others of the tribe by the 
form of its labrum, and of the last joint of the palpi. It should 
be. placed at the end of Latreille’ s fifth section, between Pana- 
geus and Cychrus *. ". 4 
cyanipes. À, P. provin 
Prare XXI. Fig. 1. 
Long. corp. lin. 75. 
Habitat in Brasilia. D. Hancock. 
Corpus oblongum, atrum, glabrum, obscurum. Caput subcor- 
datum violascente-nigrum. Clypeus distinctus, transversus, 
quadrangulus; pone clypeum foveole dus longitudinales. 
Labrum tenue, hic inde obtusangulum: angulis anum spec- 
tantibus, disco excavatum. Mandibule capitis fere longitudine, 
.edentulez, acute. Labium articulatum, apice subemarginatum | 
biaristatum. Mentum magnum, transversum, emarginatum, 
basin maxillarum tegens. Palpi maaillares exteriores quinque- 
articulati: articulis duobus primis brevissimis, tertio elongato 
subarcuato, quarto brevi obconico, extimo magno compresso 
elongato-obtriangulari vel obcuneiformi ; labiales triarticulati : 
articulo primo brevi fere obconico, secundo elongato filiformi 
flexuoso, extimo fere ut in maxillaribus sed paulo majori. An- 
tennæ rufæ, basi violascentes: articulis longitudine fere æqua- 
libus: primis quatuor obconicis, sequentibus oblongis: extimo, 
obtuso. Collum subglobosum. Thorax oblongus vel oblongo- 
»cordatus, quadrangulus, antice latior et emarginatus, postice 
subrepandus et utrinque sulco impressus : lateribus rotundatis 
 marginatis, dorso canaliculatus. Scutellum minutum, triangu- 
lare. Elytra porcata: porcis septem obtusiusculis, ante mar- 
* Cuvier, Règne Animal, iii. 197. : 
ginem 
