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Genus PODALGUS. 



Podalgus, Bunn., Handb. Ent. v. 1847, p. 117 ; Lacord., Gen. Coleopt. 



iii, 1856, p. 408 ; Arrorv, Tram. Ent. Soc. Land. 1908, p. ;J40. 

 Vertumnus, Reiche, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1859, p. 10. 

 Crator, Semenow, Jforce Soc. Ent. Hoss. 1890, p. 207.— Type, P. m- 



fantulus, Sem. 



Type, Podalr/us amiculus, Burra. (W. Africa). 



Banr/e. jN'orthern Africa and Western Asia. 



Body convex and ovate, with the head and prothorax rather 

 small and without armature. Clypeus short, tapering to a point 

 and separated from the forehead hy a transverse carina. Mandible 

 narrow in front and having two rounded lateral lobes. Maxilla 

 long, slender and without teeth. Labium bulging beneath and 

 tapering to a very sharp point. Last joint of all the palpi long 

 and thick. Prosternal process long, free and erect. Propygidium 

 bearing two longitudinal stridulatory files. Legs not long, the 

 hind ones short and their femora much inflated. Front tibia 

 armed with three very strong teeth ; middle and hind tibiae very 

 short, truncate at the end and fringed with minute spines, the 

 two spurs very broad and leaf-like ; hind tibia re<jularly and 

 strongly dilated from base to extremity. Tarsi slender, those o£ 

 the hind legs short, with the basal joint strongly triangular. 



The sexes are alike. 



One species only is known to enter India. 



283. Podalgus infantulus. 



Crator infantulus, Sem., Horce Soc. Etit. Itoss. 1890, p. 207. 



Chestnut-red, with a few reddish hairs on the sternum ; elongate 

 and very convex. The Jiead is trans- 

 versely rugose, with rather prominent 

 anteocular ridges. The pronotum is 

 strongly and densely punctured, boldly 

 and uniformly rounded at the sides, with 

 the angles obsolete. The scuteUum is 

 smooth, and the elytra are rather feebly 

 and irregularly punctured, some of the 

 punctures forming imperfect rows ; the 

 apical angles are right angles. The stridu- 

 latory files are rather divergent and do not 

 quite reach the hind margin of the pro- 

 jrig_ 74_ pyriidium. The jj?/f/t(?m/H is very minutely 



Podalgus infantulus. and thinly punctured in its apical part, 

 and densely and rugosely at the base. The 

 metastermim is slightly punctured and hairy at the sides, and the 

 abdomen very smooth. 



Length 11-13 mm. ; breadth G-7 mm. 



Punjab {Br. Pennell) ; Bokhaea. 



Type in coll. Semenow. 



