BY A. M. LEA. 731 



rounded. Legs not very long; hind coxse moderately long near 

 where they touch, suddenly narrowed, and then almost parallel- 

 sided to sides; tarsi thin, fourth joint very small and simple; 

 claws thin, with a slight basal swelling. 



The only species known has the top-heavy appearance of 

 Nematochfi and 7ricjo7io2)hu?'us, but it differs strikingly from 

 these genera in the prosternal sclerites, and in the tips of the 

 abdomen and of the elytra. Although the prosternal sutures 

 are not deeply impressed (they are, however, almost parallel with 

 each other) as they are in Microrhagus and Entomophthalmus, 

 the side-pieces may be regarded as propleural parallelograms, as 

 in those genera; whilst, in Nematodes and Trigonophuriis, the 

 side-pieces are decided triangles. Tn Blackburn's Table, the 

 genus would be associated with Hypoccelus, from which it is at 

 once distinguished by the elytra. The only genus at all ap- 

 proaching it in the tips of the elytra is Galba, with which it 

 has scarcely anything else in common. In catalogues, it may 

 be placed near Nematodes. 



NeMATODINIIS ARMIPENNIS, 11. sp. 



Of a dull castaneous brown, legs and antennae somewhat paler. 

 Moderately clothed with short, stramineous pubescence. 



Head with crowded but not very large punctures. Antennae 

 not passing middle coxae, second joint very short, third about as 

 long as the three following combined, fourth slightly longer than 

 wide, fourth-tenth subequal in length but feebly dilated till the 

 tenth is feebly transverse, eleventh scarcely wider but distinctly 

 longer than tenth. Prothorax about as long as wide, front 

 straight across middle, with a fine marginal carina curved at 

 each side, and then continued parallel with the prosternal suture 

 till it obliquely diverges to margin the hind angle, with a feeble 

 medio-basal carina, each side of base depressed ; densely granulate- 

 punctate. Elytra with outlines continuously parallel with those 

 of prothorax to near the apex, with crowded granulate-punctures 

 about base, somewhat sparser elsewhere; tips with an epipleural 

 fold from about level with base of fifth segment of abdomen, 

 densely granulate and each with an oblique projection at the 

 suture; striation feeble. 



