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the two basal joints longer than the others and either equal or 

 not, the club variable. Frothorax variable in shape, either 

 truncate or more or less deeply bisinuate at the base, the anterior 

 margin without postocular lobes or vibrissse and vertically or 

 obliquely truncate at the sides, the gular margin truncate or very 

 shallowly sinuate. Scutellum small. Elytra siiboblong, much 

 broader than the prothorax at the shoulders, which are distinct, 

 with 10 punctate striae, the sides generally subparallel from the 

 shoulders to beyond the middle, the margins gently sinuate above 

 the hind coxae. iSternum with the front coxae in the middle of 

 the prosteriuim ; the mesosternum with its epimeron much 

 smaller than the episternum, yet separatiug it from the base of 

 the elytra ; the metasternum much longer than the median coxae, 

 the episteruum broad and distinct throughout, the posterior coxae 

 not reaching tlie margin of the elytra. Venter with the inter- 

 coxal process ogival aud narrower tlinn the hind coxae, segment 2 

 as long as or longer than 3 + 4 and separated from 1 by a curved 

 incision which is shallo\\er in the middle. Legs with the femora 

 clavate and always with at least one tooth, sometimes with two, 

 and the hind pair occasionally with three ; the tibiae simple, or 

 occasionally sinuate at the base, the front pair sometimes bisinuate 

 internally, the corbels of the hiud pair open and terminal ; the 

 tarsi slender, joint 1 elongate, 3 broadly ovate, 4 rather short, 

 the claws free. 



Range. Africa, Eastern Europe, Central and Southern Asia, 

 and Australia. 



This large and somewiiat heterogeneous genus will certainly 

 require subdivision, but this cannot be accomplished satisfactorily 

 without a thorough study of the many species described from 

 other parts of tlie world, and tliis I have not yet been able to 

 undertake. It seems probable that the number of setae on the 

 mentum will prove a valuable character. All the species that I 

 have been able to re-examine recently have only two, except 

 M. fabricii, Guer., M. spectator, sp. n., and M. suavis, Est., which 

 have four ; and M. tenuiclavis, sp. n., which has eight or ten. 



The following Indian species have been erroneously attributed 

 to the genus Mijllocerus : — 



M. convexifrons, Est., is a Corigetus* 

 M. saturatevirens, Boh., is a Corigetus. 

 31. brevicollis, Boh., is a Corigetus. 

 M. multicostatus, Chev., is a Corigetus. 

 M. jJosticus, Walk., is an Anibli/rrhinus. 

 M. retrahens, Walk., is an Amhlyrrhinus. 

 M. acacice, Stebbing, is a Platytraclielus. 

 M. hirsutus, Desbr., is a Cyphiceriis. 

 M. brachyderoides, Desbr., is a Ftochus. 



* The uames Corigetus, Desbi-., Cyjykicerun, Scbli., and Plutytrachehis, Schh., 

 are here vised in the sense attinbuted to tliem by Faust, but it is doubtlul 

 whether after revision they will be retained for these particular species. 



