BY THOMAS G. SLOANE. 537 



each side, anterior just behind widest part, posterior at basal 

 angles. Elytra truncate at apex (with a narrow coriaceous mar- 

 gin), striate; interstices shagreened and thickly setigero-punctu- 

 late; an abbreviate striole at base of first interstice. Under surface 

 finely setigero-punctate; first segment of abdomen with a longi- 

 tudinal concavity in middle in $. Ze^s slender: anterior femora 

 hairy on anterior side towards base; anterior tibiae with upper 

 side lightly arcuate and longitudinally grooved; tarsi setose on 

 upper surface, posterior elongate, first joint about as long as three 

 succeeding joints together, anterior tarsi in $ subdilatate with a 

 narrow double row of papillae in middle of three basal joints; 

 ungues simple. Form depressed. Alate. 



Baron de Chaudoir formed a special group, Physocrotaphides, to 

 include the genera Helluodes, Physocrotaphus and Pogonoglossus 

 (which Dr. Horn indicated as a tribe"^); none of these genera 

 is known to me in nature, but Carpaulum evidently differs 

 from Helluodes by its small size and head not much wider than 

 thorax; and from Pogonoglossus by its long slender antennse. 

 It is apparently much more closely allied to Physocrotaphus, 

 but, apart from my disinclination to bring a genus of Ceylon 

 into our fauna without knowledge of it in nature, there seem 

 tangible differences in the form of the tooth of the mentum — 

 not ^'' profunde hifido,'^ — and the ligula — not ^^ late truncata^^ — as 

 stated by Chaudoir; the colour too is not brilliant Mack as stated 

 by Lacordaire. 



Carpaulum inflaticeps, n.sp. 



Brown; elytra darker than head and prothorax; under surface^ 

 legs, tfcc, ferruginous-brown. 



Head convex, wide (2*5 mm. across eyes), sparsely setigero- 

 punctate; eyes prominent; orbits greatly developed behind eyes, 

 almost equalling eyes in size and prominence. Prothorax sub- 

 cordate, transverse (1-8 x 2-8, length 2-2 mm. at sides), a little 

 wider at apex (2-25 mm.) than at base (2-1 mm.), rather closeljr 

 and finely punctate (each puncture with a decumbent seta); sinus 

 to receive neck truncate at bottom, widely oblique on sides; 



* Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ix. 1881, p. 141. 

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