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the same colour; femora and body beneath black ; tibias, tarsi, 

 and antenna varied with brownish red. Length 2 lines. British 

 Museum. 



PROT^EDUS. 



Head small, broad and rounded in front, slightly narrowed 

 below the eyes; rostrum very short, concave anteriorly, and 

 contracted at the apex. Antennae much longer than the body, 

 arising from a large round cavity immediately beneath and a 

 little in front of the eye ; the first joint large and inflated, the 

 second short ; the club of three narrow, interrupted joints. Eyes 

 small, remote, round, entire. Mandibles short. Labrum rather 

 large. Palpi slender. Prothorax convex, rounded anteriorly, 

 as wide as the elytra at the base ; the carina basal, forming a 

 sharp angle at its flexure, and continued to the anterior border 

 of the prothorax. Elytra convex, slightly gibbous at the base. 

 Legs of moderate length ; first tarsal joint elongate. 



Protadus mcerens. 



P. elongato-ovalis, nigro-tomentosus ; capite antice prothoracisque 



lateribus albis ; elytris albo-guttatis. 

 Hob. Batchian (Moluccas). 



Elongate-oval, covered with a dull black tomentum; head 

 between the eyes, a narrow stripe above the eyes, rostrum 

 and sides of the prothorax white; elytra punctato-striate, the 

 alternate interstices spotted with white, the base with a slight 

 tinge of greyish ; antennas and legs ferruginous brown ; pygi- 

 dium with a sparse white pubescence ; mandibles, eyes, and body 

 beneath black. Length 2 lines. 



The male has the antennae longer than the female, and all the 

 joints from the fifth or sixth are nearly or quite as thick as the 

 club itself; in the female the funiculus is of the normal slender 

 form, except that the basal joint preserves the same character 

 as in the male, but is a trifle narrower. It is to allow full 

 scope to the movement of this joint that the anterior margin of 

 the antennal groove is so expanded as to cause the concavity in 

 front of the rostrum described in the generic character. 



HYPSEUS. 



Head broad in front, contracted below the eyes; rostrum very 

 short, convex, rounded below, the apex entire. Antennae short, 

 arising from a deep groove below the eye, the first two joints 

 tumid, the last three ovate, forming a broad flat interrupted 

 club. Eyes remote, prominent, obliquely oblong, entire. La- 

 brum transverse. Palpi rather stout. Prothorax subquadrate, 

 a little narrowed in front; the carina distant from the base, 



