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Acad., VII, p. 366), is our other known species of Pasilia; it does 

 not belong to the Myrmedoniid Sipalia. 



Pachygluta Thorns. 



This genus, as represented by its type ruficollis Er. is closely 

 allied to Pasilia, differing in its more developed elytra, posteriorly 

 subinflated abdomen and still very much shorter mesosternal 

 process; also in many minor characters, such as sculpture, the 

 feeble apical sinuses of the elytra and the system of coloration. 

 The European ruficollis Er., and ludyi Epp., are the only species 

 assignable to it at present; fuliginosa Aube, erroneously assigned 

 to typical Leptusa in the recent European catalogue, if correctly 

 represented before me by a Caucasus example sent by Reitter, 

 forms part of the following genus and not Pachygluta: 



Eucryptusa Csy. 



In most of its characters this genus is almost a reproduction of 

 Leptusa, but the body is always much more minute in size, shorter 

 and more compact in build, with the prothorax shorter, the elytral 

 sinuses smaller or feebler and the mesosternal process shorter and less 

 finely acuminate, though much longer than in Pachygluta. Besides 

 the type Silusa nanula Csy., and the species represented by the 

 Caucasus specimen sent to me by Reitter mentioned above, this 

 genus will include the three following species: 



Eucryptusa pavida n. sp. Narrow, moderately convex, somewhat 

 shining, black, the elytra very dark piceo-rufous, the legs pale; micro- 

 reticulation strong; punctures fine, rather close, subgranular, asperate 

 on the elytra, feebly asperate and numerous on the abdomen, becoming 

 stronger posteriorly; pubescence short but stiff and suberect; head mod- 

 erate, evidently wider than long, almost three-fourths as wide as the 

 prothorax, the eyes well developed, at two-thirds their length from the 

 base, the less prominent tempora slightly arcuate and moderately con- 

 verging to the base; antennae piceous throughout, rather short, gradually 

 and distinctly incrassate distally, the second joint almost as long as the 

 first, longer than the third, fourth about as long as wide, tenth fully 

 twice as wide as long, the last obtuse, not quite as long as the two pre- 

 ceding, joints five to ten with dense coronae of short palish hairs which 

 also define a similarly outlined basal part of the eleventh joint; prothorax 

 three-fifths wider than long, widest at two-fifths from the apex, where 

 the sides are somewhat prominently rounded, thence rather strongly 

 converging, becoming straight, to the obtuse but distinct basal angles, the 



