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Except one species of Bagons from California, these species 

 all belong to the Atlantic region. 



Group VIII. — PhycoccBtes. 



This group is established upon one small species, Phycoccetes 

 testaceus, of pale brown color, wliich lives under sea-weed cast 

 up by the waves at San Diego, California. It differs greatly from 

 all the other members of the tribe, by the front coxce which are 

 not absolutely contiguous, but separated by a very narrow lamina 

 of prosternum, and by the very short metasternuni, only one-third 

 the length of the first ventral segment. 



In color, form, and sculpture it resembles Emphyastes, but 

 differs from that genus by such strong structural characters, that 

 we cannot venture to place them together in one tribe. 



Body clothed with very sparse pubescence. Beak cylindrical, 

 slightly curved, as long as the prothorax, not very slender, man- 

 dibles of normal form; antennal grooves commencing near the 

 tip, extending to the eyes, which are small, rounded, and coarsely 

 granulated; front continuous with the beak. Antenna with 

 scape extending to the eyes, funicle 7-jointed, first joint stouter 

 and longer, second nearly as long as the first, 3-6 rounded, 

 seventh transverse, rounded; club rather small, oval, annulated, 

 pubescent. Prothorax oval, longer than wide, rounded on the 

 sides, not constricted nor lobed in front. Elytra oval, a little 

 wider than the prothorax, humeri rounded, not prominent, base 

 feebly eniarginate. Prosternum rather long in front of the coxaj, 

 flattened, not sulcate; joining the posterior point, so as to slightly 

 separate the front coxas which are large and globose. Mesoster- 

 nura declivous, rather widely separating the middle coxae; side 

 pieces with the episterna very large, and the epimera very small, 

 extending along the margin of the elytra. Metasternum very 

 short, side pieces very narrow, but distinct; hind coxae oval, very 

 widely separated, extending to the margin of the elytra. Ventral 

 segments, first longer than the second, separated by a sinuous 

 suture; third and fourth united equal to second; fifth shorter 

 than second, rounded at tip. Legs moderate, thighs clavatc ; 

 tibijB slender, nearly straight, slightly mucronate at tip, bind pair 

 truncate, but without corbels ; tarsi rather short, spongy beneath ; 

 third joint broader, deeply l)ilobed ; fourth as long as the two 

 preceding with rather large diverging simple claws. 



