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Lineae abdomiuales obsoletiores, breves. Pedes sat longi, 

 femora subcompressa , parum iucrassata , tibiae sublineares , 

 ad apices paulo ampliatse , tarsi modice longi , baud lati. 

 Oculi subtiliter granulati. 



This new genus is proposed for a very singular looking 

 Erotylid from Java. Having the short form of Tritoma it 

 is not apparently very near allied to it, nor to Crotch's 

 genus Spondotriplax. It is more convex than either and 

 somewhat gibbous, the prothorax being more declivous, 

 with a very short prosternnm, and its base obliquely trun- 

 cate on each side. Its system of punctuation is quite dif- 

 ferent to any Tritoma , the elytra being thickly though 

 finely punctured all over, and the striae only faintly and 

 confusedly marked. 



Yet to find structural differences , easily defined , will 

 not be possible. As in most of the genera of the Eroty- 

 lidae, it is the form of the body depending on small mo- 

 difications, such as the relative length of the sterna, and 

 the greater or less convexity of the upper surface that are 

 most apparent. The system of coloration, so little thought 

 of generally , is in this group one of the best guides. In 

 the present species this recalls nothing I am acquainted 

 with in the East, but is like that of Brachysphcenus. 

 There being only four specimens, I have not dissected the 

 mouth, but the trophi are sufficiently visible. The labial 

 palpi are of the normal form ; indeed they vary very little 

 in the whole family. I confess I do not think the trophi 

 in this group are of much value for classification , although 

 presenting one or two divisional, general modifications. 



Phoxogenys M ü II e r i, n. sp. 



Breviter ovatus , antice prorsus , postice gibbosus , con- 

 vexus, niger, nitidus; capite lunula basali elytrisque flavis, 

 his puncto humerali (quod interdum ab est), plagis duabus , 



Pfotes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. X. 



