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dric ; joint 2 is small, rounded, 4—10 subequal, and with the 11th 

 oval. The thorax is small, only half as large as the head, rather 

 narrowed, strongly transverse, twice as broad as long, slightly 

 emarginated in front; the anterior angles rounded, contracted 

 below the middle, subquadrate and prolonged at the base ; pos- 

 terior angles depressed, longitudinally divided by a deep furrow. 

 The elytra are striated, and, like the thorax, densely punctured 

 and thinly pubescent. The legs are strong, simple, and sub- 

 equal ; the anterior tibise are deeply notched ; the first joint of 

 the tarsi is as long as the two succeeding ones together, sub- 

 cylindric, the second triangular, the third of a similar but more 

 transverse form, smaller — all three have the apical angles acumi- 

 nated, the fourth is large and deeply bilobed, the fifth middling, 

 thin; the claws simple. The tarsi are altogether short and 

 strong, the first joint is furnished with longer, the second and 

 third with shorter stifi" hair, whilst the fourth is strongly peni- 

 cillated below. The anterior tibise are slightly spinose, the 

 others more so. 



I believe the only specimen of this insect which has hitherto 

 come into my possession, and which has served as a type for the 

 above description, to be a female. 



Tribe Galeritid^. 



Heteroglossa, n. g., N. 



Corpus oblongum, subparallelum, depressum, tenuiter hirsutum. 

 Caput mediocre, oculis semiglobosis, sat prominulis; coUo brevi. 

 Mentum sat profunda subquadrate emarginatum, lobis magnis, extus 

 fortiter rotundatis, apice abrupte acuminatis, dente magrlo excavato, 

 apice iuflecto, obtuse, magis minusve profunda sinuato. Ligula 

 subcornea, apice libera, truncata, vel quadrata, vel obconica vel 

 leviter bisinuata ; paraglossis cylindricis, marginem anteriorem lon- 

 gissime superantibus, magis minusve arcuatis. Palpi hirsuti, art. 

 ultimo sat elongate, subcylindrico, apice truncate vel subtrigone. 

 Labrum transversum, antice emarginatum. Mandibulse validse, tri- 

 gense, apice arcuatse, basi pluries dentatse. Antennae robustae, cor- 

 poris med. attingentes, art. 1° incrassate, sequentibus 2 lengiere, 

 2° parvo, 3-1 1 subaequalibus. Thorax subcordatus, basi transver- 

 sim truncatus leviterque prolongatus. Pedunculus brevis. Elytra 

 apice fortiter subquadrate truncata, cestata, costis 16 majoribus, 

 in interstitiis subtilissime bicostulata, in sulcis (sulco e tribus inter 

 cestas binas majeres medio excepto) tenuiter pilosa, in omnibus 

 transversim rugulosa. Pedes anterieres tibiis sat fortiter emargi- 

 natis, tarsis maris art. 1-3 leviter dilatatis, subtus squamularum 

 seriebus 2 munitis, art. P elongato-trigone, 2-3 rotundate-trigenis, 

 3° prsecedente parum minore, 4° parvo cordate 3° plus sesqui minore, 

 his omnibus angulis acuminatis, 5^ magne, unguibus simplicibus. 



This diagnosis may appear somewhat vague, still I have been 



