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running parallel to the suture, the eleventh sulcate and placed on the 

 lateral border, the others approximating in pairs, and obsolete towards 

 the apex of the elytron ; basilar space slightly raised, bounded by a 

 shallow depression. 



Genus Phbtnocepha. (Plate XI. fig. 8e, side view of head, c? •) 



Corptis subelongatum, convexum ; antennis robustis, apicem versus attenu- 

 atis, articulo primo incrassato, secundo brevi, obtrigono, tertio modice 

 elongato, subclavato ; ocidis parvis, vix prominnlis, ovatis ; lahro brevi 

 transverso ; mandihtilis apice tridentatis ; mento subquadrato ; liffulu 

 apice angulato, obtuso ; j}(^h^^^ maxillaribus articulo primo parvo, 

 duobus sequentibus subclavatis, inter se ajqualibus, ultimo subconico, 

 lahialihus articulo ultimo obovato, leniter curvato, apice subacuto. 

 Tlim-ax transversus. ScuteUian trigonatum. Elytra oblonga, anguste 

 marginata, apice rotundata. Pedes robusti, mediocres; coxis anticis 

 non eontiguis ; femoribtis (prsesertim posticis) incrassatis, quatuor 

 anticis paullo compressis ; tarsomm articulo basali duobus sequeutibus 

 longitudiue fere eequali, unguiculis basi appeudicidatis. Prosternum 

 integrum, retrorsum ad mesostemimi productum, 



3Ias. Caput crassum, valde exsertum, porrectum, siibquadratum, facie 

 paullo declive ; antennis incrassatis, articulis paidlo compressis ; femo- 

 ribas magis incrassatis, tarsoncm articulo basali dilatato, obovato, apice 

 truncate. 



Foem. Caput minus exsertum, deflexum, subtrigonatum. 



Type, Phrynoapha 2}idchella, Baly. 



The present genus, which belongs to the Anisopodous section of 

 the family, must be placed near Crepidodera, — the form of the an- 

 tennae, the peculiar shape of the head in the male, and the irregu- 

 larly punctured elytra separating it from that genus. 



Phrynoce-plm indcliella. (Plate XI. fig. 8.) 



P. subelongata, testacea, nitida ; mandibularum apice, antennis (basi fidva 

 excepta), abdomine scutelloque nigris ; tarsis piceis ; elytris anguste 

 marginatis, crebre tenuiter pmictatis, csenUeis. — Long. 4^| lin. 

 Hab. Mexico. 



Subelongate, convex ; head porrect, the eyes being placed at a con- 

 siderable distance from the edge of the thorax, subquadi'ate, face 

 oblique ; vertex irregidarly punctured ; epistome narrow, transverse, 

 bounded above by a slightly curved elevated ridge, fi-om the centi-e of 

 which a pei-pendicular raised line runs upwards on the face, passing 

 between the antenuse, and terminating a short distance above them in 

 a slightly elevated, smooth and shining bilobed space ; eyes black : 

 thorax more than a tliird broader than long, sides narrowly margined, 

 nearly straight and parallel behind, narrowed and obliquel\ rounded 



