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Acupalpini and of a common Harpalid type; the third antennal 

 joint is nearly like the fourth in form, color and vestiture; the hind 

 tarsi are long and slender and the prosternal process has at tip two 

 strong setae. The single species is the following: 



*B. veneris n. sp. Oblong-suboval, rather convex, shining, deep 

 black, the elytra with feeble greenish lustre, the suture and thoracic edges 

 feebly pallescent; under surface black, the legs rather pale piceous; palpi 

 blackish-piceous, pale at apex; head moderate, three-fifths as wide as the 

 prothorax, rather constricted behind the moderate but rather prominent 

 eyes; antennae very slender and filiform, longer than the head and pro- 

 thorax, dusky, the two basal joints paler; prothorax not quite one-half 

 wider than long, widest very slightly before the middle, the sides broadly, 

 subevenly rounded, nearly straight basally; apex sinuato-truncate, with 

 narrowly rounded angles, narrower than the base, which is transverse, 

 straight and minutely beaded, the angles slightly more than right and 

 only very finely blunt at their tips; surface smooth and subeven, with 

 fine subentire stria and fine even reflexed sides, the fovese sublinear though 

 feeble, somewhat opaculate or subrugulose but not evidently punctate; 

 elytra nearly one-half longer than wide and a fourth wider than the pro- 

 thorax, parallel, with broadly arcuate sides and rounded apex, the sinus 

 wide and feeble though evident; striae fine but rather deep, the scutellar 

 moderately long, subparallel, with the fovea strong; intervals flat or very 

 nearly, the discal puncture behind apical third; lateral line of foveaa 

 clearly interrupted medially; abdomen smooth; hind tarsi very slender, 

 but slightly shorter than the tibiae, the first three joints uniformly and 

 gradually decreasing in length, the first fully as long as the fifth, the claws 

 very slender and delicate. Length (cf ) 5.0 mm. ; width 2.0 mm. Cape of 

 Good Hope (Wellington). 



Were it not for the bisetose second labio-palpal joint, this species 

 could very well be regarded as a minute Harpalus. The single 

 example was taken by the writer while a member of the Transit of 

 Venus expedition of 1882, under Prof. Simon Newcomb. 



BRADYCELLUS Erichs. The species assumed as typifying this 

 genus in the above table is the collaris of Paykull. The body is 

 more ventricose than in any of the American allied forms, but 

 the first three antennal joints are similarly glabrous; the mentum 

 tooth is well developed, triangular and very acute at tip, the 

 mental emargination very shallow; the second labio-palpal joint is 

 elongate-oval, not compressed and much shorter than the third, 

 which rapidly becomes finely subulate at tip; the last joint of the 

 outer maxillary lobe has a peculiarly inflated, apically subulate 

 form, somewhat like that of the third labio-palpal joint but more 

 slender; the last joint of the maxillary palpi is twice as long as the 



