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the emargination. The types are African and will be described in an 

 appendix to the present paper under the generic name Tclsiiiiia. 



Pharinl 

 In this remarkable tribe the abdomen consists of five segments, the 

 fifth long and strongly rounded, and the metacoxal arcs curve rapidly 

 to the apex of the first segment, which they follow externally. The 

 legs are only feebly retractile, the impressions being very shallow and 

 the tarsi are elongate and generally rather compressed, with the basal 

 node of the third joint more or less free. The fourth joint of the 

 maxillary i)alpi is slender, gradually drawn out to a finely acuminate 

 point, and the antennae are moderate in length, straight, with the club 

 narrow. The eoistoma is sinuato-truncate at apex and extends only 

 to the eyes, which are not emarginated by it, but which have a very 

 minute notch as in Scymnillini. The prosternum is flat, rather 

 widely separates the coxce and has two parallel entire and widely sep- 

 arated carinas. The two genera before me belong to the old world 

 fauna and are as follows : — 



Body puliescent above, the epipleurn? descending externally -'PharUF. 



Body subglabrous, the epipleurci; wide but liorizontal , '■•'Fharopsis. 



Species of both these genera will be alluded to in the appendix. 

 Although the palpal structure is remarkably aberrant in this tribe, 

 there is no necessity at all for considering it a distinct section of the 

 family, as is proposed in the catalogue of Heyden, Reitter and Weise, 

 and the palpi of the preceding tribe are to some extent intermediate. 

 In fact this character is no more unusual than the dilated clypeus of 

 Chilocorini, and the peculiar form of the fourth palpal joint is evi- 

 dently due to extreme obliquity of truncature, seen in a transition 

 stage in Xestohtis. P/iaroJ^sis appears to be distinct from any of the 

 African genera recently proposed by AV'eise. 



(Tlneini. 

 The genus QL/ieis of Mulsant, so far from being identical with 

 Cryptogiiatha, in reality belongs to a different division of the family 

 because of the narrow and subhorizontal epipleurce. Our small spe- 

 cies hitherto placed in CEiicis by LeConte,' and Cryptognatha by 

 Crotch and Horn, really constitute a different genus because of the 

 less convex mediati parts of the upper surface, sculpture and structure 

 of the anterLon. legs. In fact the indications point to several genera 



