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Posterior coxae contiguous. 



Elytral margin more or less interrupted and with an internal 

 plica. AntenniB with three glabrous joints. 

 Anterior tarsi of male witli three, rarely four, joints, sjiongy 

 pubescent beneath. Elytral plica feeble. 



XXXI. CnLiExiiNi. 

 - Elytral margin not interrupted, no internal plica. Antennse with 

 two, rarely with three, glabrous joints. The male tarsi vari- 

 able. XXXll. Harpalini. 



Tribe XXVIII.— BRACHYIVIIVI. 



Antentige slender, the condyle of the basal joint exposed, two 

 basal and a portion of the third joint glabrous. Head gradually 

 narrowed behind the eyes forming a neck, front with one supra- 

 orbital seta, clypcus moderately prolonged. Labruni broad, trun- 

 cate. Ej^es oval, oblique, narrowly separated from the buccal 

 opening. Mandibles stout, feebly arcuate, and with a setigerous 

 puncture externally. Maxilla) hooked at tip, ciliate within and 

 at the tip, the outer lobe slender, with equal joints, the palpi 

 moderate, the last two joints more or less pubescent. Mentum 

 moderately broad, emarginate, toothed or not; the ligula in great 

 part membranous, the oval centre corneous and bisetose at tip, 

 the paraglossEe broad, adherent, and ciliate at tip ; the palpi 

 moderate in length, the second joint longer than the last and 

 plurisetose in front. Thorax with short marginal set®, no special 

 seta at the hind angle. Scutellum distinct. Elytra not margined 

 at base, narrowly inflexed, margin not interrupted, no internal 

 plica, apex truncate and with a membranous border, disk not 

 striate and without dorsal punctures. Prosternum not prolonged 

 at tip. Mesosternal epimera broad. Metasternal epimera dis- 

 tinct, the posterior coxa; cither contiguous or separated. Middle 

 and posterior til)iai finely cili;ite or spiimlose externally, the ante- 

 rior dce{)ly emarginate within, the inner spur at the summit of 

 the enuirgination. Tarsi slender, the fourth joint feebly emargi- 

 nate. the anterior of the males with three joints feebly dilated and 

 squamnlose beneath. 



Th(! only genus occurring in our fauna is Brachipniii, occurring 

 on both sides of the continent. In the general diagnosis the 

 posterior coxsb are said to be either contiguous or separated. It 

 will be observed in tlie larger species that while many of the speci- 

 mens have the coxa; plainly contiguous, the snuiller species have 



