274 Mr. H. W. Bates o7i the 
The labial palpi are very slightly dilated from base to 
apex and truncated, not much more so than in Dolichns ; 
the species would thcreibre fit very well in the genus 
DoUcIlus ; but this would entail the incorporation in the 
same genus of all the North American species known to 
me (^P. imjninctuta, duhia, (idvcna and Mexicana). The 
present species has shining and not opake elytra, and the 
thorax is about as long as broad, with very slightly arcuated 
sides, the greatest width being a little before the middle ; 
the hind angles are almost completely rounded off. The 
edges of the thorax are reddish, and the apex of each 
elytron is Avedge-shaped. 
Pristodactyla arcnaticoUis, Mots. Etudes Entom. 18G0, 
p. 7. 
A broader species than the last, with broader and more 
strongly roimded thorax. The labial palpi are similarly 
slightly dilated and sharj^ly truncated ; the middle and 
posterior tarsi sidcated. 
Tapliria coiigrua, Morawitz, Bull. Ac. St. Petersb. 1863, 
p. 249. 
Nagasaki (one example). Bureja Mts., Amur. (jNIoraw.) 
Closely allied to T. nivalis ; a little larger, with longer 
and less rounded thorax. 
Taphria crassipalpis, n. sp. 
Elongata, robnsta, nigra nitida ; jialpis, labro, antennis, 
pedibusque piceo-rufis ; fronte lateribus grosse punctato ; 
thorace qnadrato-cordato, angulis posticis distinctis obtusis, 
basi sparsim grosse punctato ; elytris sulcato-striatis ; 
pcdibus brevibus ; tarsis hand sulcatis ; palpis labiali- 
bus ( ? ) articulo ultimo grossissime inflato-securiformi. 
Long. 5\ lin. ? . 
Iliogo ; one example. 
According to the thick, widely-securiform labial ]ialpi, 
this species would belong to Crcpidactyla, but the shorter 
legs and nngrooved tarsal joints bring it nearer Tapliria, 
whilst the subcordate thorax removes it equally from both 
genera as at present defined. The head is rather larger 
and the neck thicker than in the allied genera ; the sides 
of the forehead have a fcAV confluent large punctures, or 
rather coarse irregular ruga?. The terminal joint of the 
