CYCHRUS. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Head narrower than the thorax; external 

 maxillary and labial palpi dilated, compressed, 

 securiform ; labrum elongated, very profoundly 

 emarginate; labium very large, profoundly 

 emarginate, not wider at base than at tip; 

 mandibles narrow, elongated, bidentate near 

 the tip; thorax cordate, slightly, or not at all 

 elevated each side, and not extended behind; 

 abdomen robust, convex; elytra entire, not 

 divided at the suture, carinate each side, and 

 embracing the sides of the abdomen ; tarsi alike 

 in the sexes. 



OBSERVATIONS. 



This is a limited genus, consisting in the 

 time of Fabricius, who constructed it, of only 

 five species. As it now stands, under the 

 reforming hand of Latreille and Dejean, it is 

 certainly more rigidly natural. The latter 

 author, in his " Species general des Coleop- 



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