Description of a new Coleopterous Genus. 
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II. Description of anew Coleopterous Genus, belonging to the 
Tribe Prionida, termed Torneutes. Bg G. Ch. Reich, 
M.D., For. M. L. S. Lond., For. M. E. S., fyc. 
[Read Nov. 2, 1835.] 
Among a considerable number of coleopterous insects, collected 
in the province Entre Rios, of the state of Argentina, in South 
America, I had the pleasure to obtain the type of a new Genus of 
the Tribe of Prionida, which differs from each of the genera of 
Longicornes, Lair., published (in the new classification) of that 
family, in the Annales de la Societc Entomologique de France, tome i. 
Paris, 1832, Svo. p. 118, &c., by M. Audinet-Serville, in so many 
points, that it cannot be brought under any of the fifty genera therein 
established. It is, especially in the much lengthened, slender, and 
subcylindric, or rather subdepressed form of its body, the un- 
common number of twelve joints in the antennse, the parallelo- 
piped form of its unarmed thorax, and the shortness of its legs, by 
which it is distinguished at first sight from all the other genera 
of this tribe ; and although the decreasing length and increasing 
narrowness of the joints of its filiform antennae, from the basal 
joint to the apex, give to this insect some resemblance to the sub- 
tribe Spondylii, which the above-mentioned distinguished French 
Entomologist has placed at the head of his tribe Prionii, or rather 
with the genus Parandra, excluded by him from that tribe (so 
that we might possibly consider this new genus as the connecting 
link between the Spondylii and Prionii); yet it possesses a greater 
affinity to the last, so that it seems impossible to separate it from 
them, without violating the rules of a sound natural arrangement. 
The Latin language being that of the true scholar in natural 
history, is here adopted. I would also suggest, at the same time, 
that the general appellations of the Orders, Tribes, and Families, as 
being adjectives referring to the substantives Insecta, Coleoptera, 
Eleutherata, &c. should always be given in the neuter gender, and 
never in the masculine or feminine. 
Familia : Longicornia. Latr. 
Tribus: Prionida. 
Genus: Torneutes. (Tab. 2. fig. 1, 2, 3.) 
Corpus elongatum, angustum, aequale, subcylindricum, Statura 
lineari, depressiuscula, et facie fere Parandrce giganticae aut 
Monotomalis nmtici. 
Caput exsertum, porrectum, subrotundatum, Intitudine in medio 
