APHANISTICUS. 29 



Aph anistictis. 



Oblong oval. Black, with slight bronze reflection. 

 Thorax transverse, with three transverse impressions (the 

 two hinder ones somewhat indistinct), posterior angles 

 sharp right angles. L. 1 — 1^ 1. Moderately common. 



A. 2yusillus, 01. 



Traciiys. 



A. Length 11 — 1| lines. 



a. Head and thorax black, metallic. 



Elytra black, with bluish reflection, with four waved 

 bands of whitish hairs, uneven, shoulders raised, punctuation 

 indistinct and diffuse. L. 1^1. Moderately common. 



T. minutus, Lin. 



6. Head and thorax dark coppery. 



Elytra dark blue, without hair, strongly but not deeply 

 punctured in rows. Prosternum rather broad, nearly 

 parallel-sided. L. 1| L Eare. T. troglodytes, Gyll. 



S. Length 4 line. 



Black, rather metallic. Elytra triangular, moderately 

 strongly punctured in irregular rows, sides with a more or 

 less distinct raised line. Not uncommon. T. nana, Fab. 



EUCJ^EMIDAE, 



A, Labrum present. 



Last joint of palpi hatchet-shaped ; antennae short, first 

 joint large, middle joints small, roundish, last three joints 

 forming a club, under-side of thorax with angular gi'ooves 

 for their reception ; prosternum flat, oblong, tolerably 

 parallel-sided, truncate in front, rounded behind, with 

 sloping sides, bordered behind and at sides by an impressed 

 line ; tarsi long, first joint as long as next three together, 

 third slightly, fourth distinctly bilobed. Throscus, Latr. 



J5. Labrum absent. 



a. Last joint of maxillary palpi oval. 



Antennae comblike in both sexes, but more so in male ; 

 under-side of thorax without any grooves for reception of 

 antennae ; tarsi broad, compressed. Mel a sis, 01. 



