498 Coleopterological Notices. 



Tarsi cylindrical. 



Basal joint almost obsolete, not distinct Brontes 



Basal joint small but very distinct, slightly swollen obliquely beneath. 



Dendrophagiis 



Tarsi strongly dilated ; basal joint small but strongly, obliquely produced 

 beneath the basal parts of the second joint. 

 Third tarsal joint obliquely produced beneath in a truncate or rounded 

 lobe; basal joint of the antenna elongate; fourth joint of the maxil- 

 lary palpi large and securiform. 



Antenna? slightly thickened toward apex Psa 118 map CHS 



Antennae normally filiform throughout TelepliailllS 



Third tarsal joint very deeply bilobed ; first antenual joint short, oval ; 

 fourth palpal joint slender, conoidal Cryptamorplia 



There can be no doubt whatever that these genera should be 

 associated together. The tarsus of Brontes is truly very different 

 from that of Telephanus, but that of Dendrophagus is a tolerably 

 good intermediate, especially in the structure of the basal joint. 

 The antenna? are of precisely the same type throughout, and the 

 tarsi are isomerous in both sexes. 1 The genus Platamus of Erichson 

 is the only one described which is not included in the table ; it is 

 allied to Brontes but differs in its less elongate basal joint of the 

 antenna?. 



The Cryptophagidse which are allied to the Cucujidas, but distin- 

 guished by the transversely oval and sometimes distinctly more 

 prominent anterior coxa?, should be composed of the subfamilies 

 Cryptophaginse, Mycetophaginse, Cisina? and Sphindina?. 



The principal reasons advanced by the earlier systematists, — to 

 whose views Lacordaire deferred somewhat against his will, — for 

 considering the Cisida? a family of the Serricornia, were in great 

 measure superficial and based upon a general resemblance to the 

 Anobiini, as expressed by the generally cylindrical form of body 

 and somewhat retractile head. On examining the anatomical struc- 

 ture of the under surface I perceive no radical difference whatever 

 between Cis and many of the cryptophagides, and have no doubt at 

 all that the genus is really clavicorn. It cannot be denied, how- 

 ever, that the morphological resemblances to the anobiides above 



1 The three specimens of Cryptamorpha desjardensi (= hubbardi Cas.), before 

 me, two of which I believe to be male and female from certain differences in 

 the antennae, have the hind tarsi normally pentainerous throughout. The 

 statement made by Wollaston — apparently with some misgiving — that the 

 tarsi of the male are heteromerous is open to the gravest doubt. 



