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narrow and pubescent ; eyes always basal ; first antennal joint relatively small ; 

 last joint of the labial palpi usually flattened, obtusely truncate or securiform ; 

 mesosternum flat or feebly concave between the cox^-e ; elytra with serial punctures 



''-^ L^i"^''"^ ..Telmatophillm. 



Tarsi always filiform, simple and never lobed beneath, pentamerous in the females and 

 heteromerous in the males, the penultimate joint similar in form to the preceding ; 

 last joint of the labial palpi oval, convex, narrowly truncate at tip ; abdomitral 

 sutures straight throughout the width ; prosternal process acute, freely passing 

 over the mesosternum, which is generally concave ; eyes variable ; elytra never 

 margined at base and never having distinctly serial punctuation..CRYPTOPHAGiNi. 



The tribe Setariini is erected for three isolated European genera 

 Sefaria, Haplolophus and Leucohimafiiim, and there is no American re])- 

 resentative known thus far. The European genus CrxptophUus also 

 necessitates the creation of a distinct tribe. All the other tribes are 

 common to the two hemispheres. 



BiPHVLLINI. 



This is a small tribe, comprising a relatively large number of generic 

 types. The body is oblong-oval or elongate-oval and generally no- 

 tably depressed, pubescent and with the abdominal sutures very fine. 

 The tarsi are pentamerous in both sexes, with the fourth joint small 

 and simple, the fifth generally much elongated and the subbasal 

 thicker and lobed beneath. The pronotum generally has some ele- 

 vated longitudinal lines at least toward the ^sides ; the scutellum is 

 short and transverse and the antennae rather short, with well developed 

 club, very widely separated at base and inserted under the sides of the 

 front, the basal joint moderate or small in size. The last joint of the 

 maxillary palpi is slender, that of the labial large and securiform. The 

 truncate posterior edge of the prosternum passes freely over the surface 

 of the mesosternum, and the first ventral segment has two straight 

 cariniie diverging from the middle of the base and extending to the 

 apical margin or very nearly. The posterior sutures are flexed back- 

 ward at the sides to a greater or less degree. The genera before me 

 may be defined as follows : — 



Last joint of the labial palpi broadly oboval, thick and convex, with the apex broadly 

 truncate and excavated ; antennal club broad, oval, rather compact and 4-jointed, 

 the eighth joint, however, very small, transverse and obtrapezoidal ; pronotum 

 longitudinally lineate throughout its width Anchorius 



Last joint of the labial palpi broadly securiform and flattened, with the apical edge 

 fine ; pronotum only lineate toward the sides ''2 



