50 ANNULOSA JAVANICA. 
The apparently dimerous tarsi of the Psedaphide@ are not of themselves alone sufficient to throw 
these insects out of the stirps, for we may perceive the articulations of the tarsi to disappear 
in Oxytelus and several genera of the neighbouring family, which the Tarsal System with its 
usual inconsistency, places widely apart from the Pselaphide. 
From the Omalide by means of the genus Lesteva, we return to the Geodephaga into ‘which 
stirps we enter by Lebia and other of the Bruchinida, a family of which the distinguishing or 
typical character depends on an approach to the short truncated elytra of the Brachelytra. In 
Lesteva, moreover, and such other genera of this stirps as come nearest to the Geodephaga, the 
outer process of the maxilla is slender and palpiform. So it is that, whether nature be regarded 
at the root or at the extreme branches of her tree, we always find her pursuing the same plan, 
and constantly displaying as much unity as beauty. 
