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tenncB ; 1st aud 2nd joints black, extreme apex of the 2nd generally 

 reddish ; 3rd and 4th piceous, 4th palest. Rostrum brown-black. 



Thorax. — Pronotum behind the anterior margin, with 2 callosities ; 

 disk behind the latter, very finely wrinkled transversely. Scufellum ; 

 the transverse channel generally interrupted in the middle by a 

 somewhat indistinct longitudinal keel. Wytra finely wrinkled 

 transversely, not covering more than half the abdomen, rounded at 

 the apex; pitchy brown, gradually become paler towards and at the 

 apex, the latter frequently pale-yellowish ; before the apex of the 

 anterior margin a small, rovind, pale spot ; the base with a large, 

 somewhat triangular, yellowish or yellowish-white patch. Legs 

 black or brown-black ; tliiyhs at the apex reddish or reddish-yellow ; 

 tibicc brownish-yellow, with fine, somewhat spinose, black hairs, base 

 frequently, and apex blackish ; tarsi ; 1st joint brownish-yellow ; 

 2nd and 3rd, and claws, black. 



Abdomen ; upperside pitchy brown or blackish, clothed with short 

 yellow hairs; margin of the connexivum frequently reddish or 

 reddish-yellow ; underside black, clothed with fine, short, yellow 

 hairs. 



Length, | — 1 line. 



This species has not been detected by us as yet. The specimens 

 from which the above description is made were captured by Mr. 

 Crotch, but we have neither date nor locality given. Dr. Fior says, 

 " not particularly common on dry sandy places, in June aud July." 



Gon/s 3. — Okthocephalus, Fieb. 



(^ developed ; Elytra parallel ; ? undeveloped ; Abdomen pos- 

 teriorly oval ; Cimeus and Membrane wanting. 



Read stouter in the ? than the ^, short, vertical; in the $ 1\, 

 in the ? 2^ times as broad across the eyes as long ; Croivn flat, con- 

 siderably deflected to the base of the clypeus ; CI //pens very convex ; 

 apex and antenniferous processes in a line with the lower margin of 

 the eyes ; Face ; central lobe long, stout, convex, side lobes short, 

 narrow. Antennce stouter in the ^ than the ? , almost as loug as 

 the body ; 1st joint clavate, rather shorter than the head ; 2nd 3^ 

 times longer than the 1st, stout, thickened to the apex in the ^ , in 

 the ? somewliat clavate ; 3rd and 4th filiform, 3rd frds of the 2nd, 



