ENOPLIUM. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Three last joints of the antennae dilated, 

 forming a deeply serrated mass; the fourth, 

 fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth joints very 

 small ; palpi prominent, securiform ; body cylin- 

 drical ; tarsi with but four very obvious joints ; 

 penultimate joint bilobate. 



OBSERVATIONS. 



The species that compose this genus vs^ere 

 separated by Latreille, from the genus Tilliis 

 of Olivier and Fabricius, from the circumstance 

 that the ultimate joints of the antennae, only, 

 form a serrated mass, and that the tarsi have 

 but four very obvious joints. Dejean mentions 

 but tw^o species as inhabitants of Europe; we 

 have here given four species, but it would seem 

 that the genus might be divided with advantage 

 to the student, for whose convenience also it 

 ought perhaps to be removed to the Tetra- 

 MERA, together with several kindred genera. 



plate 41. E 



