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to each other to make it possible that a large series of 
specimens, and the discovery of the sexual characters, 
would reduce them to two species, by the linking offerru- 
ginea and its supposed var. to intermedia as a sex. 
In M. intermedia there is a decided leaning towards 
Ecti/che in the form of the pro- and meso-tibite. We have 
previously seen that the tibiie are not of the normal form 
in Ectyche tuber culipennis. The dentate humeral angle, 
which is strong in all the species of the present genus, is 
also met with (though in a feebler form) in Ectyche scahri- 
pennis. As I have previously observed, the essential 
character of the present genus resides in the antennte. 
The species of both genera have the head and prothorax 
closely, and more or less confluently, cellulose- punctate, 
and these punctures (if they can be called such) are, in 
the present genus, distinctly ocellate, or have their centre 
occupied by an impressed point, from which arises a hair. 
I have used the term cellulose-punctate in contradistinc- 
tion to that (and the most common) style of punctuation, 
which consists of impressed points on a more or less 
plane surface ; such distinction of terms has long been 
wanted. 
Micrectycke intermedia, n. sp. 
Oblong-ovate, pitchy, anterior border of head ferru- 
ginous, the rest, and the prothorax, pitchy-ferruginous ; 
pilose, the hairs much longest at the sides; moderately 
convex : prothorax a little wider than long, convex, faintly 
emarginate in front, sides moderately rounded, the margins 
distinctly expanded, flattened, of a clear ferruginous ; the 
prebasal emargination strong, semicircular; base strongly 
rounded : elytra a little shining, humeral angle less strongly 
dentiform than in any of the following ; seriate-punctate ; 
intervals punctured, the punctures a little muricate and 
transversely confluent, the sutural intervals smoother and 
more shining than the others: legs and antennse ferru- 
ginous ; 3rd joint of the latter scarcely longer than the 
4th, the last joint briefly oval : pro- and meso-tibife slightly 
bowed, their apex appearing produced within : pro-tibiae 
irregularly spinose at outer edge, the apex slightly obliquely 
truncate, the outer apical angle subdentiform. 
Long. 1^ Hn. 
Hab. — Champion Bay. One example by M. Du- 
boulay. 
