G4 COLEOPTERA. 



to Paris, where Dr. Aube at once recognized it ; but I am 

 at a loss to understand how it came back with the wrong 

 name, and purporting to be described by the wrong author. 

 I find, also, in Dr. Kraatz's account of the genus no mention 

 of Dr. Aube's '* original specimen at first referred to Falagria 

 by Dr. Kraatz himself" 5 no reference whatever being made 

 to Dr. Aube, and the only specimens recorded (and from 

 which the genus was described) being the six taken by Herr 

 Fuss in June and July 1862, as mentioned by Dr. Power. 



From Dr. Kraatz's description of the genus (loc. cit., 

 pp. 404 — 405) it appears to be related to Falagria; and 

 to be chiefly distinguished by its very slender and produced 

 mandibles, of which the right-hand one has on the inner side 

 below the middle a very large strong tooth, on the lower 

 side of which is another and much smaller tooth. The left- 

 hand mandible is attenuate, strongly curved below the 

 middle, and with no tooth. The labrum is transverse, 

 slightly emarginate on each side near the anterior angles. 

 The maxillary palpi have the apical joint small, but not so 

 attenuate as in Falagria. The joints of the labial palpi are 

 individually distinctly approximated ; and the apical joint 

 is scarcely half so broad as the first, and a little narrowed 

 at the point, instead of slightly thickened as in Falagria. 

 The left mandible, labial palpus and clypeus are figured in 

 the Berl. Ent. Zeit., loc. cit., T. iii. 15. 



The description of the species quoted in Dr. Power's note 

 requires some slight additions and alterations : — the insect is 

 sub-depressed, instead of depressed ; the elytra and legs are 

 not piceous, but '* fusco-brunneis ;" the head is excavated 

 behind ; the thorax is widely, not deeply foveolate ; and the 

 abdomen is not " very finely," but " above all thickly and 

 finely" punctured. The length appears to be 1| line, not 

 IJ lin. 



