DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. 187 



shining, sparsely punctured, and thinly clothed with long fulvous 

 hairs, the 3d and 4th are flattened, and slightly concave beneath ; 

 the 1st joint is as long as the 3d and stouter, the 3d is equal to 

 the 5th in length, but is thicker and armed with a short spine at 

 the outer angles, the 4th is about two-thirds as long as the 3d, and 

 armed with a smaller spine; the spines of the 5th and 6th joints 

 are very small ; the palpi are unequal, and the last joint is some- 

 what, though not very strongly, triangular. The mandibles are 

 stout, acute, and the outer margin is suddenly bent near the tip 

 in the $ so as to appear transversely truncate (as in Axes- 

 tiuus), but is regularly curved, and normal in form in the 9. 

 The front coxal cavities are rounded, not at all angulated exter- 

 nally, and only narrowly open behind ; the prosternum is rounded 

 behind; the mesosternum nearly perpendicular in front, horizon- 

 tal, and emarginate behind ; coxal cavities closed externally, and 

 scarcely angulated. Ventral segments slightly decreasing in 

 length, 5th rounded at tip in both sexes. Legs short, stout, 

 densely and coarsely punctured, tibiae strongly carinate, and 

 broadly grooved, spurs moderate, tarsi broad, 1st joint of hind 

 pair but little longer than the 2d. 



The body above and beneath is punctured, and clothed with 

 rather coarse, yellowish-brown hair ; the prothorax has several 

 smooth confluent spaces, the intervals being very coarsely puuc- 

 tured ; the % has in addition a large lateral densely pubescent, 

 spot ; the scutellura is broad and rounded behind, the elytra are 

 feebly truncate at tip, and armed with a small sutural spine. The 

 form is robust, about like Elaphidion atomarium. 



This species by the hairy spaces of the prothorax shows some 

 resemblance to Stromatium, from which it is quite distinct by 

 the front coxal cavities not angulated externally as well as by 

 many other characters above detailed. 



ZAMODES Lec. 



Head moderate, front short, nearly perpendicular, frontal suture 

 oblique- each side, deep; eyes coarsely granulated, deeply emar- 

 ginate, upper part less narrow than usual ; mandibles small, 

 curved acute; palpi not very unequal, last joint triangular ob- 

 liquely truncate. Antenna) ( % ) a little longer than the body, 

 punctured, finely pubescent, hispid with numerous long, erect fly- 

 ing hairs, thicker at the base, gradually attenuated externally, 



