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New Genus of Coleopterous Insects. 
(seu scapo) cum membrana labiali coalito, 2do distincto mi- 
nuto, 3tio longiori, subclavato ; 4to 3tio paullo longiori ad 
apicem attenuato, truncato. 
Prothoracis dorsum ( Pronotum ) subquadratum, lateribus paullo 
curvatis et postice sublatioribus, capite (praesertim antice) 
angustius. Scutellum (mesotlioracicum) distinction, fere 
semicirculare. Elytra ovalia, posticci paullo latiora, anticb 
subtruncata et thorace latiora. 
Pedes mediocres, simplices ; femoribus versus basin subincras- 
sata, iibiarum calcari obsoleto ; tarsis simplicibus, omnibus 
distincte 5-articulatis, articulis quatuor basal ibus sensim de- 
crescentibus, ultimo paullo longiori, graciliori ; unguibus 
membrana basali instructis. 
This minute genus corresponds in several respects with Dasytes 
and Melyris, and still more particularly with Pelecophora of De- 
jean, a genus which, from the inconspicuous size of the basal 
joint of the tarsi, was placed by that author amongst the tetrame- 
rous Coleoptera near Lema. The structure of the mouth is not 
unlike Pelecophora, as figured by Guerin in his Iconograpliie du 
Iiegne Animal, but the size of the head and basal tarsal joint, as 
well as the habit of the insect, entirely removes it from that genus. 
In Dasytes the maxillary palpi are filiform, but in the obscure 
colouring of the insect there is an evident relationship between 
the two genera. Amauronia, however, seems to form a very dis- 
tinct passage (with the assistance of the quasi-tetramerous Peleco- 
phora ) to the smaller and obscurely coloured species of Cleridce, 
which have also the basal joint of the tarsi minute, and the max- 
illary palpi terminated by a securiform joint. The insect forming 
the type of this genus is one of the most minute serricorn beetles. 
Sp. unica. Amauronia subcenea. 
PI. XIV. Fig. 10. 
.Llneo-nigra ; rude et irregulariter punctata et undique setis 
perbrevibus pallidis obsita ; antennis fuscis, articulis 3 vel 4 
basalibus fulvescentibus, elytris interdum chalybeo tinctis, 
pedibus fulvis, femoribus in medio obscuris, tarsorum arti- 
culis apicalibus fuscis. Magnitudo Cisidis nitidi, at angustior. 
Long. corp. | lineae. 
Habitat, in Insula Corfu. Dom. Templeton. 
PI. XIV. Fig. 10. 
Amauronia subcenea magnified. 10a, upper side of head and antenna; 10b, 
labrum ; 10 c, mandible; 10 d, maxilla; 10 e, labium; 10 f, anterior; 
10 g, intermediate; 10 e, posteriorleg. 
