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the prothorax, widened to beyond the middle, obsoletely striate anteriorly, 

 transversely depressed below the base, tumid on either side of the suture in 

 front of this, the suture depressed before the apex. Legs short, slender. 

 Length 2^, breadth -^^ mm. ( ? .) 



Hah.: Brazil, Rio cle Janeiro (Fry). 



One specimen. Narrower and less rol)ust than P. brevicollis, the 

 head and eyes smaller, the antennae more slender, the prothorax 

 longer, the elytra with a shallower post basal depression, and with 

 a sharply-defined humeral spot and a common triangular apical 

 patch testaceous. P. imfressipennis Pic, from Tijuca, Minas G-eraes, 

 must be a nearly allied form ; it is described as having the elytra in- 

 fuscate at the middle, with the base broadly, and a triangular apical 

 patch, testaceous-red, the head scarcely broader than the prothorax, 

 the antennae short. 



Grammatodeka, n. gen. 



Head obliquely narrowed behind the eyes, without frontal groove, the 

 antennae inserted beneath the feebly developed, short, oblique, cariniform orbits, 

 the epistoma short, broad; eyes large, lateral, depressed, rounded, feebly 

 emarginate, finely facetted ; antennae short, slender, svib-serrate ; mandibles 

 long, unemarginate at tip ; labrum large, transverse ; terminal joint of maxillary 

 palpi narrowly ovate, obliquely truncate at apex ; prothorax immarginate 

 laterally, trvmcate at base, simply convex, unimpressed ; scutelhim small, trans- 

 verse ; elytra elongate, confusedly punctate, the epipleura abbreviated ; anterior 

 coxae conical, exserted, contiguous, the cavities open behind ; intermediate 

 coxae narrowly separated, the cavities closed externally by the sterna ; meta- 

 thoracic episterna broad, parallel-sided; venter convex, the fifth segment very 

 short ; legs short ; tibial spurs minute ; tarsi narrow, the penultimate joint 

 lobed, the basal joint of posterior pair not longer than the others united, the 

 claws angularly dilated in their basal half. 



Type: G. bifasciata. 



The type of this Cingalese genus has the general facies of an 

 elongate, sub-cylindrical, maculate Cryptophagid, but it is undoubtedly 

 correctly placed near Evrypns and the other genera here associated 

 with the latter. The head appears to be somewhat produced in front, 

 but this is due to the development of the labrum and mandibles. The 

 prothorax is convex, without foveae or impressions. The elytra have 

 an oblique intra-humeral groove, as in many Xylophilids, etc. The 

 lobed penultimate tarsal joint separates Grammatodera from the 

 Pythids. 



