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minentibus, vix sinuatis; prothorace fortiter transverse, valde con- 

 vexo, coriaceo, subtiliter minus crebre punctulato, antice in medio 

 sat fortiter producto, margine laterali leviter arcuata ; elytris 

 quam conjunctim latioribus parum longioribus, prope suturam sub- 

 tilius — inde latera versus gradatim fortius — punctulatis, inter haec 

 puncta subtiliter minus sparsim punctulatis, pone humeros vix 

 transversim strigosis, intra marginem lateralem profunde sulcatis 

 latitudine majori mox pone basin posita ; scutello sat magno, quin- 

 quangulo, crebre subtiliter punctulato ; femoribus medio dilatatis, 

 anticis medio dente minuto acuto instructis ; tibiis intermediis 

 leviter, posticis vix perspicue, emarginatis ; prosterno antice con- 

 cavo, margine reflexo, inter coxas sat lato, fortiter elevato- 

 dilatato pone ; abdominis segmentis 2-4 gradatim brevioribus ; 

 corpore subtus subtilius sat sparsim (prosterno crassius crebre 

 excepto) punctulato. [Long. 2 (vix), lat. 1| lines. 



This and the next species cannot be regarded as genuine mem- 

 bers of Tomyris ; the glabrous body and different anterior margin 

 of the presternum would suffice to justify their separation, — but I 

 think they are certainly allied to Tomyris and 1 am unwilling to 

 give them a new generic name because they appear in many 

 characters to agree so well with Cleptor, Lef., (placed by its author 

 in the Edusitoi) that I cannot resist a doubt whether M. Lefevre 

 may not have overlooked the slight external emargination of the 

 4 hinder tibiee and the peculiar anterior margin of the prosternum, 

 and have founded his genus on a species congeneric with that now 

 before me. This insect undoubtedly seems intermediate between 

 Tomyris and Edusia. Its tibiae, — although their external emar- 

 gination is very feeble, — are those of Tomyris. The prosternum 

 does not agree with that of either genus ; it resembles Tomyris 

 rather than Edusia in having no part of its front margin con- 

 vex in a forward direction, but the whole of that margin is bent 

 U]ywards (forming an increased receptacle for the head). The 

 anterior coxae are separated about as widely as in Tomyris ohscura, 

 the hind portion of the prosternum from the point where it begins 

 to dilate hind ward bring abruptly on a higher plane than the 



