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DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OP OALLEBUGIDJE. 



BY JOSEPH S. BALT, M.D., F.L.S. 



(Continued from page 101.) 



Genus Iphidea. 

 Corpus ovato-elongatum, convexum. Caput exsertum, breve : facie 

 perpendiculari, inter oculos convexiuscula : antennis corpore vix brevi- 

 oribus, gracilibus, filiformibus ; articulo primo sub-elongato, curvato, 

 basi ad apicem incrassato ; secundo dimidia parte sua vix breviori ; tertio 

 secundo dimidio longiori ; sequeutibus inter se fere sequalibus, singulis 

 tertio paullo longioribus : palpis maxillaribus ovatis, acuminatis : oculis 

 prominulis, integris. Thorax transversus, lateribus leviter rotiuidatis, 

 vix marginatis, disco baud impresso. Elytra thorace latiora, sub- 

 parallela, confusim punctata. Pedes graciles, elongati : coxis anticis 

 fere contiguis : feriioribus posticis baud incrassatis : tihiis omnibus apice 

 spina acuta elongata armatis : tarsorum posticorum articulo primo 

 elongate, sequentibus conjunctim longiori ; secundo primi tertisB parti 

 sequali ; tertio brevissimo : unguiculis appendiculatis. Prosternum 

 lineariforme, fere obsoletum. 



Type, Iphidea discrepens. 

 The present genus is very closely allied to Lvperodes, Motsch., 

 from wliicb it differs in its more parallel form and longer legs, and in 

 tbe relative length of the second and third joints of the hinder pair of 

 tarsi ; in Iphidea the second joint being nearly twice the length of the 

 third, which is very short, whilst in Luperodes both joints are short and 

 equal. Both genera have the first joint very long, and also agree in 

 having the apices of all the tibiae armed with a long slender spine. 



Iphidea discrepens, n. s. 



Elongata, sub-parallela, convexa, pallide fulvo-fusca, nitida, suhtus 

 nigro-picea ; antennis (basi excepta), scutello, pedihusque nigris, 

 genubus anticis obscure fulms ; elytris tenuiter sub-remote punctatis, 

 limbo exteriori suturdque anguste piceis. Long. 3 lin. 



JSab. : Japan. 



Face short ; labrum and jaws black ; encarpae transverse, con- 

 tiguous. Thorax more than one half broader than long ; sides narrowly 

 margined, straight and parallel, but converging in front, with the an- 

 terior angles armed with an obtuse setiferous tubercle ; disc transversely 

 convex, impunctate. Scutellum triangular, shining black. 



Cj-enus AsTENA. 

 Corpus elongatum, fei-e parallclum, postice vix ampliatum, convexum. 



