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differs profoundly from that species in the very small size, slender 

 form and dense or coalescent punctures of the pronotum. That 

 it belongs to the piceus, rather than the dilatatus, section of the 

 genus, I think is sufficiently evident because of the laterally feebly 

 rounded and but slightly basally narrowed prothorax. It certainly 

 cannot be allied in any way closely with angulatus, where the 

 thoracic punctures are sparse and the size much larger. It is a 

 very interesting species that it is hoped may be rediscovered in the 

 course of time. 



Anadaptus n. gen. 



The body here is more or less narrowly elongate-suboval, strongly 

 convex, with cordiform prothorax, having the basal angles sharply 

 marked as a rule and the elytral striae deeply impressed, except in 

 some of the Pacific species, where the striae are feebler and the 

 strial intervals more or less punctate, never serially however as in 

 Dicheirus but confusedly over their entire breadth. The ligula is 

 moderately wide, gradually and only slightly broadening to the 

 apex, the paraglossae with the outer part of the apex prolonged and 

 sometimes curling inward. The species have a peculiar habitus 

 which indicates at a glance that they constitute a genus different 

 from Anisodactyhis, where they have been assigned hitherto; I 

 have but little doubt that the genus is desirable in the present state 

 of taxonomy and therefore valid. The species are moderately 

 numerous, those known thus far being the following: 



Elytral intervals not alternately punctate; body partially pale in color, 



never metallic in lustre 2 



Elytral intervals alternately punctured throughout their width; body 

 entirely dark in color, with more or less obvious metallic lustre. . .5 



2 Epistoma with a single puncture at each angle 3 



Epistoma with two or three punctures at each anterior angle 4 



3 Form ( 9 ) oblong-oval, only moderately convex, black above and 

 beneath, excepting the elytra, the fine thoracic margins diaphanously 

 pale; femora blackish, the tibiae, tarsi and epipleura testaceous; 

 head rather short, fully two-thirds as wide as the prothorax, with 

 prominent eyes, outwardly arcuate lineiform foveae and rather short 

 blackish, though basally pale, antennae; surface smooth, punctured 

 at the sides basally; prothorax a third wider than long, the sides 

 broadly rounded, moderately converging and just visibly sinuate 

 basally; apex broadly sinuate, equal to the base, which is transverse, 

 becoming arcuate between the end of the foveae and the angles, which 

 are somewhat obtuse but sharply marked and as a rule minutely 



