Genera and Species of Coleoptera. 57 



can judge from the parts in situ, the meutum is subtriangular and 

 the labium obcordate. 



Ehnydodes collaris. (PL III. fig. 3.) 



£. nigra, setoso-hirsuta ; capite prothoraceque hiteis. 



Kab. Brazil (Para). 



Black, covered with short stift' hairs ; head didl reddish-yeUow ; 

 prothorax thickly punctm-ed, clear reddish-yellow ; elytra coarsely 

 punctured, each in ten rows ; tihise with long stiff" hairs. Length 3 

 lines. 



loDEMA [Cantharidae]. 



Head shortly triangular. Eyes roimd, prominent, entire. Labrum small, 

 rounded anteriorly. Palpi slender; terminal joint of the labial ovate, 

 of the maxillary subcylindrical. Antennae short, linear, the joints 

 slightly ohconic. Prothorax transverse, naiTowed in front. Elji;ra 

 subdepressed, wider behmd ; the sides somewhat concave. Legs slen- 

 der; tibife bicalcarate; penultimate joints of all the tarsi small, tri- 

 angular. 



Differs from Cantharis, with which only it is likely to be con- 

 founded, in the short penultimate joint of its tarsi : the claws appear 

 to be undivided, from the close application of their two divisions. 



lodema Clarhii. (PL III. fig. 1.) 



/. atra, nitidaj elytris violaceis; tarsorum posticorum articido primo 

 albido. 



Hab. Brazil (Organ Mountains). 



Head and prothorax deep glossy black, sparingly punctured, especially 

 the latter ; scutellum narrowly triangular ; elytra dark violet-blue, 

 thickly and iiTegularly punctiured ; body beneath and eyes black ; base 

 of the first joint of the posterior tarsi whitish ; spm's of the middle 

 tibiae, and all the claws, except at their apices, yellow. Length 4 lines. 



I am indebted for my specimen to the Rev. Hamlet Clark, who 

 took several individuals at Constancia, in the Organ Mountains. 



ZoNiTis [Cantharidae]. 

 Fabricius, Syst. Entom. p. 126. 



Zonitis ci/anipennis. (PL III. fig. 5.) 



Z. angustus, glaber, ater ; prothorace, scuteUo, femoribusque (apice ex- 

 cepta) luteis ; elytris cyaneis, nitidis. 



Hab. Australia (Melbourne). 



Narrow, glabrous, shining; head black, very narrow, and produced 

 anteriorly ; prothorax reddish-yellow, nuich longer than broad ; scu- 

 tellum didl yellowish ; elytra narrow, parallel, rather convex, dark 



