New Species of exotic Coleopterous Insects. 69 



X. Descriptions of some new Species of exotic Coleopterous 

 Insects. By J. O. Westwood, F. L. S., Sfc. 



[Read 5 June, 1837.] 



Section Heteromera. 



Genus. Blepusa, Westm. (BXeTrscra, aspiciens.) Plate III. fig. 3. 



Genus singulare. Cistelides cum Conopalpo, &c. conjungere 

 viJetur. 



Corpus oblongum, postice attenuatum, rlgidum. 



Caput (fig. So) mediocre, postice in collum contractum. Oculi 

 maximi, capitis partem majorem occupantes, supra fere con- 

 nexi, et anlice convergentes. Labrum (fig. 3 b) transverso- 

 quadratum, angulis anticis rotundatis, et in medio subemar- 

 ginato ; margine subsetoso. Maxillce (fig, 3 c) lobis duobus, 

 externo majori quasi articulate, apice rotundato piloso, 

 interno tenui apice setoso. Palpi maxillares 4-articulati, arti- 

 culis Imo et 3tio brevibus, 2do longiori ad apicem paullo 

 crassiori, 4to maximo transverso securiformi. Mcnlum 

 (fig. 3d) parvum urniforme, angulis lateralibus acutis. Labium 

 menti fere magnitudine, lateribus rotundatis et ciliatis. Palpi 

 labiales breves 3-articulati, articulo ultimo magno securiformi. 

 AntenrK^ graciles filiformes, sub latera producta capitis, prope 

 oculos, insertae ; articulo Imo brevi, 2do minutissimo, 3tio 

 reliquis parum longiori. 



Thorax transversus, capite fere duplo latior, lateribus irregulariter 

 rotundatis, margine postico in medio rotundato producto, 

 dorso subdepresso, Scutellum parvum. Elytra oblonga, 

 postice attenuata, basi thorace paullo latiora, costata. Pedes 

 robusti, fomoribus crassis, tibite longiores, tarsi 4 antici 5-arti- 

 culati, articulis intermediis subtus membranaceo-productis, 

 integris. Ungues basi subtus dilatati, dentibus 4 vel 5 armati 



(fig. 3.). 

 This singular genus serves to connect in a very interesting 

 manner some of the tribes of which Latreille has composed his 

 division of the Heteromerous Colcoptera named Stenelytra. It 

 agrees with some of the Cistelidce in the serrated structure of the 

 ungues, whilst the singular form of the palpi serves to show a 

 much nearer relation with Couopalpus, Nothus, ^"c. It appears 

 nearly allied to Allccula, and especially to Lobopoda of Solier. 

 (Ann. Soc. Ent. d. France, 1835, p. 233.) 



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