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synoptic table) is as follows: body behind scarcely attenuated; maxil- 

 lary palpi short, the last joint subulate; antennse kneed at base, out- 

 wardly gradually more or less thickened; head (more or less) ex- 

 serted, always broader than the base of the thorax; mouth not ros- 

 trate ; thorax broader at apex, mostly rounded, the angles scarcely 

 deflexed; elytra not plicate at base; legs pubescent; the tibire hairy 

 or pubescent, never really spinose; tarsi with the first joint longer 

 than the following joints. The type is: sulcata Payk. In this genus 

 the right mandible is very obtusely toothed in the middle of the 

 inner margin, the left mandible is simple; the ligula bifid to about 

 the middle; the labial palpi with joint 2 rather short; the prosternum 

 behind the front coxre on each side with a large quadrate corneous 

 plate, the two plates subcontiguous in the middle line; the meso- 

 sternal process rounded at tip; the middle coxal cavities open behind, 

 and the hind tarsi with joint i fully as long as joints 2-4 together. 

 The scutellum is longitudinally sulcate, with an acute longitudinal 

 carina on each side of the sulcus. 



Stcnagria Shp. A well-characterized genus, with subsemicircular 

 labrum, dentate right mandible, bilobed ligula, long fourth maxillary 

 palpal joint, with large and elongate quadrangular prosternal plates, 

 these plates being not only contiguous in the middle line, but being 

 also in close contact with the prosternal process, with subacute meso- 

 sternal process and only slightly separated middle coxae; the hind 

 tarsi with joint i considerably longer than joints 2-4 together. The 

 scutellum is neither carinate nor sulcate. Type gracilipes Shp. 



Lissagria Csy. can probably be maintained only as a subgenus of 

 Falagria sens, lat., differing from the latter by the more deeply lobed 

 ligula, the rather long second labial palpal joint, the smaller corneous 

 plates of the prosternum, and the simple scutellum. It can be recog- 

 nized, without much trouble, by the form of the body, the head and 

 prothorax being rather narrow in comparison with the elytra and 

 abdomen. Type : Iccviuscnla Lee. 



Lorinota Csy. is another, rather feebly characterized genus (sub- 

 genus?), the principal characters being the rounded labrum, the 

 strongly toothed right mandible, the deeply bifid ligula, the very long 

 fourth maxillary palpal joint, the rounded mesosternal process and 

 the rather long first joint of the hind tarsi. The scutellum is variable 

 in sculpture. Type : ciiigiilata Lee. 



