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in the sapwood, occasionally one in the sapwood. Larva when 

 full grown makes burrow straight into the heartwood and pupates. 



This species is very closely allied to Hylotrupes amethystinus 

 Lee., but is distinguished from that species by having shining 

 black elytra without any trace of the violet color. 



Hylotrupes amethystinus Lee. has somewhat of a similar habit 

 but as far as known, only attacks dying and felled Libocedrus 

 and Thuja. The larva works under the bark, making broad 

 winding excavations, eating the inner bark and outer sapwood, 

 sometimes separating the bark from the wood, then enters the 

 wood, sometimes burrowing to the heartwood where the burrows 

 become longitudinal, pupating in either bark or wood, but usually 

 in the heartwood. 



Paratimia new genus. 



Eyes moderately finely granulated, deeply emarginate, partly envelop- 

 ing the base of the antennae, but not as deeply emarginate as in Atirnia. 

 Head broad and short, the front perpendicular. Labrum transverse, 

 ciliated with long hairs. Palpi unequal, the maxillary about twice as long 

 as the labial last joint triangular. Antennae slender, shorter than the 

 body in both sexes, 11-jointed; second joint less than half as long as the 

 thi d, which i? a little shorter than the fourth, fifth joint longest; punc- 

 tured and pubescent. Front coxa? rounded, narrowly separated by the 

 prosternum, cavities angulated externally, completely closed behind; mid- 

 dle coxa; separated by the mesosternum about twice the distance which 

 separates the front coxa?, cavities slightly angulated externally, completely 

 closed by the sterna. Mesosternum concave between the coxa?, emargi- 

 nate behind. Metasternum deeply emarginate behind. Legs short, femora 

 slightly clavate, front tibise with one, middle and posterior ones with two 

 small spurs, hind tarsi with first joint equal to the two following united. 



Type: Paratimia conicola n. sp. 



This new genus belongs to Leconte and Horn's tribe Atimiini 

 but differs from the genus Atimia by having the front coxse nar- 

 rowly separated by the prosternum, the cavities angulated exter- 

 nally, eyes not quite as deeply emarginate and the last joint of 

 the maxillary palpi being triangular. In general form it resembles 

 a Lamiine but the front tibise are without the oblique grooves. 



Paratimia conicola n. sp. 



Male: Elongate, slender, subcylindrical. Thorax somewhat cordiform, 

 not wider than long, front angles rounded, sides rounded just before the 

 middle, then obliquely narrowed towards the base, surface fusco-piceus, 

 coarsely and thickly punctured, and rather densely clothed with long pros- 

 trated reddish-brown hairs, those on the posterior half and underside 

 whitish. Elytra a little wider than the thorax, two and one-half times 

 as long as wide, sides nearly parallel, slightly narrowed towards the tips 



