60 MEMOIRS ON THE COLEOPTERA 



Antenna short, with a loose 3- jointed club; eyes with coarse separated 

 facets; elytra with feebly impressed lines and subserial arrangement 

 of the punctures; tarsi slender, not lobed; anterior tibiae slender, 

 unmodified; body small in size. [Type L. striolatus n. sp.]. 



Lioligus 



Antennae long and subfiliform, never clavate; eyes finely and closely 

 faceted; elytra without impressed lines, evenly but not regularly, 

 much more closely punctate; third tarsal joint with a long oblique 

 inferior lobe; anterior tibiae broader, grooved, angulate externally; 

 hind body more inflated ; very much larger in size, more southern in 

 habitat. [Type A. chrysomelina Erichs.] Amphicyrta 



These genera are both represented by a number of species, which 

 occur under stones or old bark and in other similar places. 



Lioligus n. gen. 



The body is oblong-oval, much more elongate than in Amphicyrta, 

 always highly polished and usually metallic green in coloration. 

 The head is very short, convex, the eyes rather pointed beneath, 

 moderately convex, the surface adjoining them above somewhat 

 impressed; the frontal margin makes a very broad arc from eye to 

 eye and is strongly, evenly beaded, the antennae inserted under 

 its sides, just before the eyes; the epistoma is small, transverse, 

 thin and projects anteriorly below the level of the front; it is 

 assumed that this piece, at any rate, takes the place of the epistoma 

 or clypeus of the preceding subfamily. The labrum well developed, 

 transverse, convex, with its angles rounded and apex sinuate medi- 

 ally, the mandibles stout, the mouth organs rather small and the 

 last joint of the maxillary palpi slender, sharply pointed and im- 

 pressed on its anterior side; the head is moderately retractile. 

 The prothorax is transverse, convex, with the anterior angles not or 

 very feebly produced, the base not or scarcely lobed medially, the 

 scutellum rather shorter than wide, triangular and somewhat con- 

 vex, and the elytra ogival at tip; apex of the prosternum entering a 

 deep transverse mesosternal fossa; metasternum extremely short 

 between the middle and hind coxae; abdomen as long as the entire 

 remainder of the body, with subequal segments and straight distinct 

 sutures, the first fine medially; met-episterna short and very broad; 

 hind coxse rather small, oval, attenuate externally, attaining the 

 met-episterna but not closely approaching the sides of the body; 

 tarsi slender, cylindric, sparsely hispid, 5-jointed throughout, not 



