BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 471 



Salcus globosus Pasc; I.e., No.5496. 



I have not been able to identify this species positively, but I 

 think it quite possible that it has been redescribed by Mr. Pascoe 

 as S. elevatus. 



Hob. - Queensland. 



Genus Tentegia Pascoe, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., xii., 1873, 

 p.283. 



Head rather small. Eyes small, coarsely faceted. Rostrum 

 moderately short, and stout. Antennae rather stout. Prothorax 

 large, transverse, base almost truncate, apex narrowly produced 

 and subtubular. Scutellum absent. Elytra wide and short, 

 widest and usually suddenly dilated immediately behind shoulders. 

 Mesosternal receptacle flat, feebly raised; slightly or moderately 

 cavernous. Metasternal episterna not traceable. Abdomen with 

 the basal segment large; second about half the size of first, its 

 suture with it distinct and deep at sides, not at all or feebly trace- 

 able across middle ; three apical segments depressed, strongly 

 narrowed by elytra. Legs long; femora feebly grooved, dentate 

 or not; tarsi narrow, third joint moderately or not at all bilobed, 

 the width of, or slightly wider than, second. Briefly subovate, 

 moderately convex, punctate, granulate, setose, feebly squamose, 

 apterous. 



I have six species under examination, but unfortunately not 

 one of them is T. favosa. I believe that they belong to Tentegia, 

 although the eyes in all are ovate (not "rotundatus"). In all of 

 them the third tarsal joint is the width of (or slightly wider than) 

 the second, but it is not usually simple. The intercoxal process 

 is so wide that the hind coxae are forced out almost to the elytra. 

 The genus is remarkable for its short broad form, wide intercoxal 

 process of abdomen, dentition of femora, curved femora and tibiae, 

 and thin tarsi; the prothorax and elytra, at their bases, leave a 

 space (invisible from above) in which the two front femora can 

 rest; the hind ones are curved so as to embrace the elytra pos- 

 teriorly, but are distinctly continued beyond the apex. Its 

 nearest ally is probably Salcus. 



