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the British Museum, there is a specimen received from Reed, atijreeiug 

 with Philippi's figure of B. pictus. This insect, apparently ^, has 

 long, slender antennae, with joint 2 nearly as long as 3, the prothorax 

 about as long as broad, immargiuate laterally, and without sternal 

 suture ; the elytra elongate, cuneiform, and serrulate along the sutural 

 and outer margins (except towards the base) ; the intermediate coxae 

 contiguous posteriorly ; the legs long and slender ; the intermediate 

 and posterior tibiae serrulate along their upper edge ; the hind joint 

 of the posterior tarsi simple ; the anterior tarsi undilated. In the 

 "Munich" Catalogue Aniomphopalpns is sunk as a synonym of Serro- 

 yaJpus, while DeJitijjalpns is retained as distinct ; the holarctic genus 

 Serropalpus, however, has been recorded from Chile, as well as from 

 Japan, Madagascar (S. madecassus Fairm.), etc. 



Callidircaea, n. gen. 

 ? Megapaljjvs Montrouzier. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1860, p. 295. 



Maxillary palpi long, serrate, joint 4 elongate, cnltriform ; antennae long, 

 slender, snb-filiform ; prothorax sharply margined laterally, transverse ; elytra 

 confusedly punctured, the suture unnotehed ; anterior portion of the prosternum 

 short, connate with the propleura ; anterior coxae very large, exserted, con- 

 tiguous ; intermediate coxae contiguous posteriorly ; anterior tarsi broadly 

 dilated in ^ ; intermediate and posterior tibiae compressed, notched or serrulate 

 along their iipper edge, the spurs moderately long, unequal in length, simple ; 

 posterior tarsi with joint 1 very elongate, 3 simple. 



Type : C. sexnotata. 



Two closely allied Brazilian insects belong to this genus, and the 

 Australian Dircaea venusta Gha.m'p. {lignivoraJjea,), referred by Seidlitz 

 to Amomphopaljrus, can also be included in it. All three have sharply 

 maculate elytra. The transversely notched, sub-serrate, intermediate, 

 and posterior tibiae, the simple penultimate joint of the posterior 

 tarsi, the connate prosternum and propleura, and the long, slender 

 antennae, distinguish these insects from Dircaea and Phloeotrya ; the 

 non-striate elytra and contiguous intermediate coxae separate them 

 from SerropalpMS and Cuphosls, and the sharply margined prothorax, 

 etc., from Amomphopaljnis F. and G. (= DeMtipalpus Philippi). As 

 stated above, under Phloeotrya, it is not impossible that Callidircaea 

 may prove to be synonymous with Megapalpus Montr. The Chilean 

 genus MaUochira F. and G., type M. suhfasciata, is said to have 

 pectinate tibial spurs. 



