PSALIS. 75 



branches conical, stout, subcontiguous, gently curved in the d ; 

 contiguous in the $ . 



Range. Asia, Africa, America. 



This genus was confused by the older authors with Lahidura. 

 De Bonnans remarks that it ap])roaches nearer to AnisolaUs, and 

 this is correct, for it is practically the same thing but with fully- 

 developed organs of flight. 



The genus Carcmophora, Scudd., only differing from typical 

 Psalis in the absence of wings, cannot stand, and must be absorbed 

 in Psalis. 



Table of Sj)ecies. 



1. Wings perfectly developed ; forceps of 

 male not contiguous at base ; (colour 

 shining chocolate, vaiied with yellow- 



^^") femoralis, Dolirn, p. 75. 



1.1. Wmgs abortive; forceps of male con- 

 tiguous at base. 

 2. Elytra rectangular, showing no scu- 

 tellum. 

 3. Colour brilliant shining reddish 

 black, with blue sheen on elytra, 



which are truncate posteriorly. . dohml, Kirby, p. 76. 

 3.3. Colour reddish black, with no blue 



sheen ; elytra oblique posteriorly, h'froyi, sp. n., p. 77. 

 2.2. Elytra strongly cut away at the 

 axillary angle, thus being tri- 

 angular ; exposing a small scu- 

 tellum cnstetsi, Bonn., p. 77. 



31. Psalis femoralis, DoJim. (Fig. 18.) 



Labidura femoralis, Boltrii, (63) p. 321 ; Scudder, (76) p. 522 (nee 



Dubr.). 

 Psalis femoralis, Bonn. (88) p. 434, (94) p. 378, (00^) p. 38 ; Burr, 



(01) p. 78, pi. B, fig. 3, (08-^) p. 29 ; Kirby, (04) p. 13. 



Stature small but robust ; general colour deep chestnut-brown, 

 varied with yellowish and often with a bluish sheen. Autennje 

 greyish yellow, the basal segments paler. Head shining deep 

 dark brown. Pronotum chocolate-brown, shining, the sides some- 

 what paler, longer than broad and broadeued posteriorly ; anterior 

 and lateral margins straight; posterior margin subcouvex, the 

 angles rounded. Elytra shining chocolate - brown, truncate 

 apically, with a faint bronze sheen. Wings long, pale yellowisli 

 at the base, of the same colour as the elytra at the apex. Le^s 

 pale yellow, the femora banded with dark brown. Abdomen deep 

 chocolate-brown, smooth and shining. Last dorsal segment quad- 

 rate in both sexes, faintly rugulose posteriorly in the d" , with a 

 median depression and a faint tumid tubercle over the insertion 



