BY THE REV. R. L. KING, B.A. 317 



Kreusler is still incomplete with respect to the labium, and 

 perhaps the alee of which I have found no trace. I hope that 

 more specimens may ere long be detected. 



The following will be the generic description of the present 

 species : — 



Sub-famHy GNOSTID^. 



Genus Anapestus. 



Caput fere ad oculos immersum, antice usque ad antennarum 

 basin porrectum. 



Oculi satis magni. 



Antennce contiguge crassffi triarticulatse ; articulo 1™° oblongo, 



2"*^° subgloboso, S''" elongato oblique truncato, 

 Os pronum. 



Labrum alte emarginatum. 

 Mandibulce trigonse, edentulse. 

 Maxillce parvae, trigonse. 

 Palpi max. et lah. ut in Gnosto. 

 Labium subquadratum, 



Prothorax trans versus convexus lateribus emarginatis. 

 Scutellum parvum trigonum. 



Elytra convexa, humeris rotundatis, abdomen tegentia. 

 Pedes breves, tibiis gracilibus, coxis posterioribus distantibus, 



tarsis cylindricis pentameris. 

 Abdomen 4-articulatuni. 

 Corpus apterum. 



Sp. 1. — Anapestus Kreusleri. (PI. XVI.) 



Piceo-castaneus, nitidus, punctatus, sub lente setosus ; elytris 



minute punctatis. 

 Long. -05., lat. -03 poll. 

 In Ants' nests, under logs half buried in the earth. 



