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completely anchylosed, but this may possibly be a deformity. The 

 second tarsal claw is distinct as in the other species, and nearly one- 

 half as long as the principal. 



OROPODES n. gen. 



The body in this genus resembles Euplectus in general outline, 

 but the head is smaller, more orbicular and with less distant an- 

 tennae ; the elytra have two distinct though short discal siriae, and 

 the abdomen is completely devoid of basal impression or carinse. 

 The prosternum is rather long before the coxse, and has a fine im- 

 pressed and carinate line extending from each ante-coxal fovea to 

 the apical margin, where it is met by the similar fine raised line 

 separating the prosternum proper from its parapleurse. The dorsal 

 segments are equal, the first ventral extending beyond the coxae 

 and greatly exposed throughout the width. Legs rather slender ; 

 hind tarsi more than one-half as long as the tibiae, with the second 

 joint a little longer than the third ; claw well developed, the appen- 

 dage not visible in the type. 



The single species has a facies which is somewhat intermediate 

 between Euplectus and Oropus: — 



O. orlJiceps n. sp. — Elongate, subparallel, feebly convex, polished, sub- 

 impunctate and dark rufo-testaceous in color throughout ; pubes^cence ratlier 

 long but sparse. Head slightly narrower than the prothorax, nearly as long 

 as wide; eyes small, slightly prominent, the tempora large and long, at first 

 feebly convergent, then broadly rounded to the neck which is not wider than 

 the apex ; occiput with a feeble tumor at the middle of the posterior declivity ; 

 fovese small, deep, perforate, nude, distant by one-third the total width, situ- 

 ated distinctly behind the middle, each continued forward by a deep oblique 

 sulcus, the two coalescent anteriorly in a large flat depressed area separating 

 the large and prominent antennal tubercles ; antennae widely separated, stout, 

 rather longer than the head and prothorax, the club gradual, eleventh joint 

 subquadrate, obtusely pointed ; under surface smooth, polished, subimpunc- 

 tate, with fine sparse subrecumbent hairs, entirely devoid of erect capitulate 

 setae, but having the usual deep rounded impression near the neck ; maxillary 

 palpi nearly as in Euplectus but stouter. Prothorax distinctly wider than 

 long, widest just before middle, where the sides are broadly rounded and 

 convergent to the neck, less strongly convergent and nearly straight in basal 

 half, the base much wider than the apex ; disk with a deep transverse pit 

 at basal fourth, feebly connected with two large deep sublateral fovese, also 

 with a large feeble median impression between the subbasal pit and the basal 

 margin, and another subinterrupted extending between this and each basal 

 angle ; also with a narrow, very feebly impressed, siibentire median sulcus. 



