774 Coleopterological Notices, VI. 



Prothorax narro^ver than the head. 



Body stout as in Zonautes, black with pale spots Pseiidariotiis 



Body elongate as in Ariotns, black or piceous, without spots. 



Antennaj gradually and generally feebly incrassate Taiioniis 



Antennai terminating in an abrupt parallel and five-jointed club. 



Taiiilotes 



8 — Eyes finely faceted; bod}- minutely, densely pruinose ScaiiylllS 



9 — Eyes coarsely faceted and completely unemarginate Ciiopus 



10 — Suture between the first two amalgamated segruents of tlie abdomen di.s- 

 tinct throughout the width; two l)asal joints of the antennae smaller, 

 subequal and stouter than the following. 

 Epistomal suture fine but distinct; body stout, tlie antenmc short; pro- 

 thorax wider than the head <«anasciis 



Epistomal suture completely obsolete; antennie very long, filiform and 



cylindrical; inothorax narrower than the head Saiiilytes 



11 — Epistomal suture distinct; body stout, oval; head not constricted at base; 

 antennic Avith the first two joints stout, the remainder very slender, con- 

 spicuously ciliate, slightly incrassate near the apex Axylopllillis 



EIvO]¥US n. gen. 



In this genus the body is oblong, moderately convex, opaque, 

 coarsely, densely sculptured and clothed with short confused 

 pubescence intermixed with longer and more erect hairs. The 

 head is deeply constricted and strongly sinuate at base, the 

 fourth joint of the maxillary palpi moderately large and in the 

 form of a right-angled triangle, and the last joint of the labial 

 very large, slightl}' transverse, suboval, truncate at apex and 

 deeply concave, with the surface minutel}^ granulose and sensi- 

 tive beneath. The e3'es are large, deeply emarginate, coarsel}' 

 faceted, conspicuously- pilose and distant from the base; antenuiie 

 long, more or less thick, cylindrical and roughl}' sculptured, with 

 the second joint transverse, short, as wide as the first but wider 

 than the third and obliquely truncate at base, the last joint 

 obliquely pointed or bent. 



The middle coxa; are well separated, the posterior subcontigu- 

 ous, the basal process of the abdomen rather acute, the basal seg- 

 ment of the latter having the dividing suture visible in the mid- 

 dle very near the base and almost tangent to the acetabula. The 

 posterior tibist are devoid of terminal spurs, but have instead a 

 terminal tuft of yellow seta? externally ; the basal joint of the 

 hind tarsi is extremely long, bent toward base and finel}' subcari- 

 nate beneath. 



