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many other uniques of my collection was lost in a vessel, while being sent to 

 Prof. Lacordaire for examination. A mutilated specimen was brought by Mr. 

 Schott from the Mexican boundary, but the arrival of a fine specimen from 

 Tejon, enables me to study anew the characters, by the aid of Prof. Lacordaire's 

 fourth volume. 



The tarsi are not lobed beneath as formerly described by me : the appearance 

 was produced by the agglutination of hairs. From the absence of lobes, the 

 presence of large appendages to the claws, and the size and obliquity of the 

 middle coxse, the genus must be referred to the same family with Dasytes, 

 though remarkably different from any other described. The eyes are rounded, 

 prominent and coarsely granulate : the last joint of the long maxillary palpi 

 is large and securiform, of the labial palpi triangular ; the posterior tarsi have 

 the first and second joints about equal, the third very slightly shorter, the 

 fourth still shorter. The sixth segment of the abdomen in one specimen is 

 exserted, in the other retracted, so as to be very small. The posterior coxse 

 appear precisely as in the Cleridaa : so that this anomalous genus must be 

 regarded as intimately connecting Dasytes with that family. 



66. Cymatodera ovipennis, fusco-castanea, pilis pallidis parce vestita, 

 capite confertissime, thorace subtilius dense punctato, latitudine duplo longiore, 

 ante medium parum,pone medium fortius constricto, medio transversim rugoso, 

 pone apicem transversim inipresso, elytris ad basin thorace vix latioribus, pos- 

 tice sensim dilatatis, subtiliter punctulatis, striis punctatis, apicem hand at- 

 tingentibus, internis brevioribus, fascia transversa pallida ad medium ornatis, 

 antennis pedibusque pallidioribus, illis apice palpisque flavo-testaceis. Long. 

 40 -45. 



Tejon, two specimens. Resembles in form C. angustata Spin., hut is 

 much larger, the thorax is less densely punctured, and the strise of the elytra 

 are abbreviated, the internal ones ceasing at the pale band. 



67. Trichodes tenellus. 



68. Clerus e x i m i u s . 



69. Necrobia rufipes. 



70. Ptinus verticalis, nigro-piceus, elongatus, pube sordide ochracea 

 squamiformi dense vestitus, capite inter oculos transversim impresso, thorace 

 latitudine longiore, postice angustato et profunde constricto, medio sulcato, 

 ad medium dentibus 4 transversim positis e setis erectis formatis armato ; 

 elytris latitudine fere duplo longioribus, convexis lateribus rotundatis, seriatim 

 punctatis et longe pilosis ; antennis pedibusque testaceis. Long. T7. 



One female, Tejon. Has the dimensions of the female of P. fur, but differs 

 very much in its characters. 



71. Sinoxylon declive. 



72. Exops Stoutii Lee. AUccocnemis Stoutii Lee. 73. E. o vipennis. 



74. Lyctus planicollis. 



75 . Edrotes ventricosus. 



76. Nyctoporis carinata. 







77. Pelecyphorus costipennis, elongatus, ater, snbopacus, thorace con- 

 vexo, latitudine breviore, lateribus valde rotundatis, depresso-marginatis, 

 rugosis, angulis posticis perobtusis, disco requaliter sat dense punctato, elytris 

 thorace angustioribus, sutura, margine, costisque utrinque tribus valde elevatis. 

 Long. -63 -80. 



Tejon. The first and second costae unite about one-sixth from the apex, the 

 third commences at the margin about one-ftmrth from the base, and ceases 

 opposite the confluence of the other two costse. The apex of the elytra is 

 strongly margined. The antenna? are moderately short, hardly attaining the 

 middle of the thorax : the head is punctured like the thorax : the apical angle 



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