BY ARTHUU M. LISA. 597 



vei'sd; two basal joints of funicle elongate; club small, ovate. 

 -Prothorax suddenly narrowed and tubular at apex, sides rathei- 

 •strongly rounded and feebly decreasing to base. EJytra notice- 

 ably wider than prothorax, apex feebly emarginate. Pectoral 

 ■canal narrow, deep, terminated at metasternum. M^soaternal 

 receptacle twice as long as wide, walls very thin; open. Femora 

 dentate, scarcely visibly grooved. 



The long thin rostrum, and long and open mesosternal receptacle 

 render this genus very distinct. 



'Convex; prothorax fasciculate, not carinate; rostrum 



straight, mesosternal epistenia densely punctate gaUirto(jo Pase. 



flattened; prothorax carinate, not fasciculate; rostrum 

 slightly curved; metasternal episterna with one row 

 of punctures in middle jylaitipennis Le;i. 



ISAX GALLINAGO Pasc; Mast. Cat., 8p. No. 5562. 



Black, opaque, rostrum piceous, antenna and claws dull red. 

 Densely clothed all over with minute sooty-brown and testaceous 

 scales; with a transverse row of four sooty fascicles across middle 

 of prothorax, and one on each side of apex; 2nd interstice witli 

 two elongate fascicles, -tth with three very much smaller and a 

 moderately large one near apex; undersurface with sooty and 

 testaceous scales, extreme base of rostrum squamose. 



Head with ocular fovea rather indistinct and longitudinal; 

 eyes almost round. Rostrum long, thin, rounded, straight, 

 shining; base densely punctate, elsewhere sparsely and somewhat 

 irregularly ])unctate. Scape short, inserted slightly nearer base 

 than apex of rostrum, not extending to apex; two basal joints of 

 funicle elongate, 1st as long as 2nd-;3rd, 3rd as long as 4th-5tli, 

 7th distinctly transverse. Prothorax transverse, convex, apical 

 third tubular, apex itself feebly emarginate, sides rounded; 

 densely covered with small shallow punctures. Scutellum obloni^s 

 raised, feebly shining. Elytra almost thrice the length of pro 

 thorax, and noticeably wider, subparallel to near apex, convex; 

 shoulders subtuberculate; each with about seven obsolete tubercles 

 supporting fascicles, two elongate ones on the 2nd interstice, of 



