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scale-like hairs; of th<> small spots, visible in a well marked 

 specimen, two are placed obliquely before , and one below the 

 middle of each elytron. 



Leprotoides, gen. n. 



Oblong-ovate, eyes entire, antennae filiform, the second joint 

 short and thick, the third and fourth elongate, thorax subcy- 

 lindrical without lateral margin, surface rugose, opaque, elytra 

 closely punctate-striate , clothed with extremely short scarcely 

 perceptible pubescence, til)iae slender and elongate, not emargi- 

 nate at the apex, claws bifid, the prosternum longer than broad, 

 subquadrate, the anterior margin of the thoracic episternum 

 concave. 



I am obliged to establish this genus for the reception of a 

 small species of black and opaque appearance which will perhaps 

 best enter the group of Leprotinae and seems allied to Leproles 

 but differs from this and any other genus of that section in having 

 a nearly glal)rous upper surface, so that only with the strongest 

 lens can a very fine pubescence be discovered, ])esides the small 

 size of the species, all other genera l)elonging to the group are 

 either clothed with long hairs or covered with scales, or have 

 the femora furnished with a tooth and the posterior til)iae emar- 

 ginate at the apex. 



35. Leprotoides flavipes, n. sp. — Black, opaque, the head 

 fulvous, the l)asal joints of the antennae and the legs flavous, 

 thorax finely rugose, subquadrate, elytra convex, widened poste- 

 riorly closely punctat(vstriate , the interstices costate. 



Length 1-1 ^/^ line. 



Head broad, very finely rugosely jnmctured, the extreme 

 vertex l)lack, the entire lower portion fulvous, the clypeus trans- 

 verse, separated from the face, coarsely and sjiaringly punctured, 

 its anterior margin semicircularly emarginate , antennae two- 

 thirds the length of the body, slender , black , tlie basal four 

 joints flavous; thorax twice as broad as long, subcylindrical or 

 subquadrate when seen from a])Ove, slightly narrowed in front 

 with a very obsolete shallow depression near the anterior margin. 



