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This curious species recalls a little the species I described 

 as Episcapha octopustulata (Proc. Zool. Soc. Loudon, 1883, 

 p. 82), which, as well as the present species , must now be 

 referred to Micrencaustes Crotch, as the maxillary palpi 

 have the apical joint much widened , and the mentum , la- 

 bium and its palpi also agreeing therewith. 



II. Subfam. D a c n i d e s. 



Euzostria, n. g. 



Corpus elongatum , subcylindricum , modice convexum. 

 Palpi maxillares articulo ultimo parvo , oblongo , apice trun- 

 cato. Mentum transversum , fortiter marginatum , in medio 

 autice acute productum. Antennae breves , articulo tertio 

 parum elongatum. Epistoma margine antico haud emargi- 

 nato. Oculi prope antennarum insertionem per canthum 

 incisi. Pronotum subquadratum , angulis anticis acutis , 

 paululum productis; prosternum antice convexum at haud 

 compressum vel elevatum , processu lato apice angulariter 

 exciso , subcanaliculato. Mesosteruum subquadratum. Me- 

 tasternum longum ; lineis metasternalibus vel abdominalibus 

 nullis. Femora compressa , haud perlata , intus longe ca- 

 ualiculata, tibiae simplices, fere lineares. Tarsi articulis 

 tribus primis tenuibus , compressis , articulo apicali , his fere 

 sequali. Elytra longa , subparallela , Iseviuscula , apicibus 

 rotundatis, nullomodo truncatis. 



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Euzostria is most nearly allied to Chapuis' genus Cop- 

 tengis. This latter genus has been very fully characterised 

 by its author in his volume XII of the » Suites a Buffon", 

 Genera des Coléop teres. It had been previously (in February 

 of the same year , 1876) been very bi-iefly noticed by 

 Crotch in his Catalogue of the Erotylidae; but the publi- 

 cation was not issued in time to anticipate M. Chapuis , to 

 whom the definition really belongs of Coptengis. Crotch's 

 description is too brief perhaps, and not sufficiently dif- 



Notes from tlie Leyden JMuseum , Vol. X. 



