CERAMBYCID.-E 309 



cylindric, flexed inwardly and prominent at apex; prothorax 

 cylindric, longer than wide, much narrower than the base of the 

 elytra, which are very long, gradually and feebly tapering from 

 base to apex, with even punctate surface, the apices narrowly and 

 evenly rounded, without sutural angle; anterior coxae rounded, 

 prominent, contiguous, their cavities widely open behind, the middle 

 coxae contiguous, large, reclined, conoidal and prominent; meso- 

 sternum flat; met-episterna moderately wide, subparallel anteriorly, 

 attenuated behind; legs very slender, the femora unarmed, moder- 

 ately but suddenly inflated in more than apical half; tarsi short 

 but very slender, cylindric, with close pubescence beneath, the 

 first joint of the posterior longer than the next two, second parallel, 

 twice as long as wide, the third but little wider than the first, longer 

 than wide, moderately emarginate; claws very minute, slender, 

 arcuate. 



I am unable to place this genus very accurately in the scheme of 

 Lacordaire, though in most of its characters it seems to accord 

 best w r ith the group " Phlyctenodides " ; it is isolated there however 

 because of its remarkably developed and closely contiguous eyes. 

 The type is the following: 



Malthophia oculata n. sp. Slender, moderately convex, slightly 

 shining, dark reddish-brown throughout, the legs and under surface 

 more blackish; pubescence short, pale, rather coarse, decumbent, even 

 and not dense, with some erect hairs in addition anteriorly; antennae 

 about three-fourths longer than the body, extremely slender, joints three 

 to seven equal, very long, each nearly twice as long as the small and 

 moderately stout, feebly sigmoid basal joint, the outer joints gradually 

 but little shorter, the pubescence short, abundant, uniform ari*d suberect 

 with some long erect hairs beneath basally; prothorax a fourth longer 

 than wide, cylindric, slightly constricted basally, the sides subtubercu- 

 late just behind the middle, the surface rather strongly, irregularly 

 punctate and with two subbasal pits which are more shining and more 

 clearly punctate; base rather narrower than the apex; scutellum small, 

 parabolic, about as long as wide, nearly nude, scarcely punctate; elytra 

 not quite four times as long as wide, nearly one-half wider than the 

 prothorax, feebly tapering throughout, very gradually and moderately 

 dehiscent from far before the middle, the surface even, not very coarsely 

 but deeply, rather closely punctate and almost equally strongly so to 

 the narrowly rounded apices; under surface finely but rather closely 

 punctate, the fifth ventral arcuato-truncate. Length (cf) 10.0 mm.; 

 width 1.8 mm. California (San Diego), Ricksecker. 



A single example of this anomalous species was sent to me some 



