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margin of the pronomui in other Coleuptera. The prosteruuni is 

 very long in front of the coxte, which are nearly eontiguous in our 

 species, though distinctly separated iu the foreign genera; it i's 

 not emarginate in front, and the prosternul sutures are obliterated. 

 The elytra are scarcely wider than the prothora.x, parallel on the 

 sides, conjointly rounded behind, so as to cover the pygidiuni ; 

 the 'surface is punctulate, and the striae are obsolete. The middle 

 coxa; are moderately separated ; the side pieces are diagonally 

 divided, and the epiniera attain widely the base of the prothorax 

 beneath, though they do not intervene between the elytra and the 

 pronotuni. Metasternum moderately long, side pieces narrow, 

 wider in front. First, second, and fifth ventral segments long; 

 third and fourth united about equal to each of them ; surface 

 rather flat, sutures fine and well impressed, nearly straight; 

 second suture slightly curved at the sides; in the % the anal 

 segment is slightly visible at the tip of the fifth ventral. Legs 

 rather stout, thighs comi)ressed, not toothed ; tibise truncate at 

 tip, not mucronate; tarsi spongy beneath; third joint broad, 

 dee|)ly bilobed; claws divergent, broadly toothed in our species; 

 simple in the foreign genera. 



While having a slight relation with the Magdalini and Antho- 

 nomini this tribe adds to the characters it has in common with 

 them and other tribes, one peculiar to itself; the prostcrnum very 

 long in front of the coxae. .The space between the front coxa; is 

 almost imperceptible in our two species, but as the descriptions 

 of the foreign genera mention them as moderately distant, we infer 

 that that character, as well as the form of the claws, must be 

 regarded of small value iu this tribe. 



Three species of Notoloraus, two on Chamserops palmetto and 

 one on Myrica, in Florida, represent this tri)>e. 



Tribe XV.— L^lWOSAtCIlVI. 



This tribe is composed of a single genus Laemosaccus, of 

 which one species occurs in our fauna. It is easily known by 

 the exposed pygidiuni; the large, prominent, and distant front 

 coxae, and the breast not cluuHUjlled. The side pieces of the 

 mesothorax are very transverse, and intervene somewhat between 

 the prothorax and elytra; the episterna of metathorax are wide, 

 and the epimera are visible behind. The ventral sutures arc 

 straight; first and second segments eipial, longer than the third 



