LeConte.] 



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Beak slender, curved, longer than the prothorax, sparsely punctured, eyes 

 smaller, prominent ; head punctured. Prothorax scarcely longer than 

 wide, gradually narrowed in front, feebly rounded on the sides, slightly 

 constricted near the tip, strongly not densely punctured. Elytra wider 

 than the prothorax, humeri rounded, striae deeper and more strongly punc- 

 tured than in the preceding, interspaces more convex and less punctulate. 

 Body beneath coarsely punctured. Length 1.5 mm.; .06 inch. 

 One specimen, Florida ; collected by Dr. E. Brendel. 



Group IV. Cryptopli. 



In this group the body is densely clothed with scales, forming usually a 

 shining crust ; the beak is cylindrical and curved, not separated from the 

 head by a transverse impression ; the antennal grooves commence about 

 one-third from the end, and run directly towards the eyes which are lat- 

 eral, oval, transverse, coarsely granulated and not approximate beneath. 

 Funiculus of the antennae in some genera 6-jointed ; first joint long, the 

 others short, increasing gradually in breadth, and sometimes passing insen- 

 sibly into the club, wiiich is rather large, oval, annulated and pubescent. 

 Prothorax with broad postocular lobes, front coxae large, prominent, con- 

 tiguous, prosternum transversely, very deeply impressed but not excavated 

 in front of the coxae, or deeply Cmarginate. The legs are not very slender, 

 the thighs moderately clavate, the tibiae sinimte on the inner side, as long as 

 the thighs, truncate and mucronate at tip, with the articular surface ter- 

 minal ; the front tibiae sub-serrate from the middle to the tip. Tarsi broad 

 with the fourth joint short, variable in form (absent in the European Ano- 

 plus), third joint broad deeply bilobed. Elytra with ten entire striae. 



Last joint of tarsi broad, claws distant 2. 



" narrow, with one claw BRACHYBAMUS. 



" " " projecting, with two 



slender claws ONYCHYLIS. 



Elytra slightly wider than the prothorax ENDALUS. 



" much " " TANYSPHYRUS. 



ENDALUS Lap. 



This genus was first described by Schonherr, under the previously used 

 name Notiopliilus. The error was recognized and corrected in Vol. vii of 

 his work, and the name changed to Notiodes. Meanwhile, however, En- 

 dalus had been proposed by Laporte, in a systematic work, and being ac- 

 companied by proper description must of course take precedence. The 

 species occur on grasses near water ; of those described thus far, only one 

 properly belongs to the genus, the others will be found under Onycliylis 

 and Lissorhoptrus. The funicle is 6-joiuted, and in some of the species 

 IJasses gradually into the club. 



