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shorter than the prothoi-ax, 3rd joint of tarsi dilated and bilobed 

 antennal scape impinging on the prothorax, anterior coxse not con- 

 tiguous, metasternum very short, strongly marked sexual charac- 

 ters in the hind tibiae and basal ventral segment. 



The eyes are fairly strongly granulate, the posterior corbels 

 cavernous, the claws divergent. These important characters are 

 omitted in Mr. Pascoe's diagnosis of the genus, but nevertheless 

 I do not think I can be mistaken in its identification. I may add 

 that in all the species I have examined the coxse are wider apart in 

 what I take to be the male than in the other sex. 



Dysostines crawfordi, sp.nov. 



Oblongus (?mas) vel breviter ovalis (liem.); niger vel 

 brunneus, antennis pedibusque (tarsis obscurioribus exceptis) 

 brunneis vel brunneo-testaceis ; supra squamis albidis brun- 

 neis nigrisque diversissime vestitus, et cum corpore subtus 

 pedibusque pilis setiformibus (his in elytrorum interstitiis 

 seriatim dispositis) instructus ; rostro quam latioi'i vix duplo 

 longiori, supra sequali, arcuato, sat planato ; antennarum funi- 

 culi articulis 3-7 traiTSversis, gradatim latioribus ; prothorace 

 quam longiori vix quarta parte latiori, supra tequali, antice vix 

 tubulato, punctulato, puncturis in striis subconcentricis positis, 

 lateribus ampliato-rotundatis ; scutello vix distincto, ely- 

 trotum in pai-te antica dec]i\T subperpendiculariter posito ; 

 elytris prothorace vix (1 maris) vel parum (I feminae) latiori- 

 bus, postice abrupte declivibus, striato-punctulatis, puncturis 

 modicis, striis vix impressis, interstitiis sat planatis (in 

 exemplis nullo modo abrasis squamse efficiunt ut inters titia 

 late leviter carinata esse videantur), humeris subprominulis ; 

 mesosterno declivi simplici ; prosterno inter coxas anticas 

 quam antennarum clava sat angustiori ; segmento ventrali 1° 

 late leviter concavo (I maris), vel in parte postica media im- 

 pressione magna triangulari instructo (I feminse) ; tibiis rectis, 

 intus bisinuatis, apice et extus et intus angulatim dilatatis. 



[Long. 2-2f, lat. f-Ii lines. 



