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Head, in general, moderate, oval or sub-cylindrical, and visibly narrowed 

 behind ; eyes moderate or small, slightly prominent. Antemuc more or 

 less robust, always longer than the prothorax, composed of obconical 

 joints, sometimes elongated, sometimes short, in this case submonili- 

 form ; first joint rather stout, second shorter than those which follow, 

 these latter sub-equal, or decreasing gradually. Prothorax of variable 

 form, never very strongly transversal. Elytra in general rather long, 

 sub-parallel, sinuated or not near the extremity, at most moderately 

 convex. Legs robust ; the three first joints of the front tarsi strongly 

 dilated among the males, the first longer than the next two, these more 

 or less transversal. 



Note. — This is appended to enable colonial entomologists to refer 

 to the general characters of this sub-family. 



Group— ANISODAOTYLID^. 



Ligida free at its extremity. Tarsi variable, sometimes all alike in 

 both sexes and spongy underneath, with their last joint strongly bi-lobed ; 

 generally the four basal joints of the front and middle tarsi dilated 

 among the males ; the first joint of the anterior sometimes expanded 

 among the females; the dilated joints always clothed underneath with 

 hairs, but not mingled with scales. 



Triplosarus. 



Bates ; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., March- April, 1874. 



Corpus breviter oblongum, sub-depressum. Caput pone oculos 

 haud angustatum. Mandibulae edentatfe, basi latje, apice angustata^ et 

 curvatae. Lahruni medio leviter emarginatum, angulis rotundatis. 

 Mentuin medio dente forti, acuto ; lobis extus valde rotundatis, apice 

 intus acutis ; epilobiis haud conspicuis. Ligula oblonga, apice libera, 

 recte truncata ; paraglossis apice leque truncatis, longitudine et latitu- 

 dine ligulte sequalibus. J'horax transversim quadratus. Elytra apice 

 obtuse rotundata, paulo sinuata ; striola scutellaris longa, inter strias 

 primam et secundam posita. Tibice setosae ; anticce extus 5-spinospe. 



M. Tarsi quatuor anteriores articulis secundo ad quartum dilatatis, 

 pedum anteriorum brevissimi, intermediorum longiores cordati ; articulo 

 quarto nullomodo lobato ; palmis ut in Anisodadylo dense breviter 

 setosis, planis ; articulo primo triangulari, subtus nudo. 



This genus differs from the other Anisodactylincc in the form of its 

 head and mandibles, which resemble those of Fhorticosomus, Cratacan- 

 thus, etc., but the eyes are rather jjrominent ; the suture separating the 

 epistome from the forehead is very sharply impressed, and has a short 

 deep frontal foveole near each end. The paraglossae are lateral, and 

 not placed behind the ligula, as in other genera of the group. 



94. T. fulvescens, Bates; Ami. Mag. Nat. Hist., March- 

 April, 1874. T. ochraceo-fulvus, subnitidus, capite thoraceque interdum 

 seneo tinctus ; thorace antice rotundato, postice modice angustato, 



