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 Rey Brevip. 1883, 10; ianglb. Kaf. LI. IT, 331). 



The body is very small and short, anteriorly strongly or rather 

 strongly convex, posteriorly strongly tapering to a point; head hy- 

 pognathouE, short and broad, though narrower than pronotum, and po- 

 steriorly deeply embedded in same; eyes somewhat protruding; antennae 

 proportionally long and rather slender, only IC-Jointed, with fine 

 bristle-hair, their first joint very thick, the second thicker and 

 longer than middle onesC-3-7), which often are small, and consider- 

 ably smaller than the three last joints, which form a feebly pronoun- 

 ced club, in which the distal joint is as large as the tv:0 other 

 joints together, maxillary palpi long, their third joint as long as 

 the second, on inner side swollen, the fourth very small, needle- 

 point-formed. 



Pronotum is short and oroad, strongly convex; posteriorly join- 

 ed closely to elytra and is here about as broad as these, but an- 

 teriorly strongly rounded off narrowed, so that sides and fore- 

 margin fit in same rounding. Scutellum is not visible; elytra con- 

 vex, with sharp side-ridges, with rounded off outer hind-corners 

 and obtuse-angular suture-corners; abdomen ofteoest strongly co- 

 nical tapering, with sharp side ridges; after the animal's aeath 

 it is often so greatly contracted and drawn in under elytra, that 

 the species thereby gets a rounded appearance, like that of Aga - 

 thidium . Legs rather short and thin, tioiae haired, all tarsi 4- 

 jOinted, first joint of .middle &nd posterior tarsi longer, or as 

 long as the other three together. - i''irst joint of the anterior 



