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is transversely tumid, and the lateral angles acute. The meta- 

 sternal process is short, angulate and transversely tumid or sub- 

 carinate. The epipleurse are horizontal and nearly equal in width 

 throuo-hout, except near the base, where they become a little wider 

 and almost vertical. 



The tribe Lycoptini is related in some of its characters to the 

 Synchitini, but differs in the structure of the anterior coxae which 

 are transversely oval and pointed externally, a character which is 

 extremely rare if not unique in the family. The 7-jointed antennae 

 also constitute a peculiar character, and there are only the feeblest 

 indications of division in the club visible under special conditions 

 of illumination, the amalgamation being complete ; the third joint 

 is slender and much longer than the fourth. Lycoptis appears to 

 be one of those connective forms which, with increasing discovery, . 

 will in all probability ultimately unite many of the small families 

 of Clavicorns. 



L.. villosa 11. sp. — Oblong, parallel, rather depressed, rufo-ferriigiuous 

 throughout, feebly shining, the elytra more strongly so ; entire upper surface 

 herissate with very long, erect, somewhat sparse but conspicuous hairs. Head 

 wider than long, the eyes prominent and convex, the sides before them short 

 and strongly convergent anteriorly from their inner margin ; apex broadly 

 truncate ; epistoma short, the suture transverse and distinct ; sides of the 

 front at each side of the epistoma very slightly tumid ; labrum very short and 

 transverse ; upper surface feebly, evenly convex, coarsely and densely punc- 

 tate. Prothorax four-fifths wider than long, two-thirds wider than the head, 

 united to the hind body by a short peduncle less than one-half as wide as the 

 base ; apex slightly narrower than the base, truncate between the slightly 

 advanced and narrowly rounded apical angles ; base transversely truncate 

 throughout the width, the basal angles distinctly and rather broadly rounded ; 

 sides extremely feebly, evenly arcuate ; disk very feebly convex but strongly 

 declivous laterally, the margins narrowly reflexo-explanate, the lateral edges 

 minutely crenulate, coarsely, very densely punctate throughout, without trace 

 of impressions, Scutellum transversely oval. Elytra rather more than three 

 times as long as the prothorax and exactly equal to it in width ; sides parallel 

 and straight ; apex evenly, semi-circularly rounded ; base truncate ; humeri 

 right, not rounded ; disk nearly fiat above, strongly declivous laterally fiom 

 the sublateral carina ; on each elytron there is at lateral third a strongly 

 elevated carina, the surface thence to the suture marked with five feebly 

 elevated lines, interrupted by distant punctares, the intervals each with a 

 single series of rather coarse punctures, the surface thence to the sides having 

 a single feebly elevated but uninterrupted line, the two intervals each with 

 three even series of punctures. Under surface moderately shining, feebly 



