530 INIr. T. Vernon Wollaston on the 
suffice, of itself, to exclude a manifestly erratic form like 
OmjclioUps from being regarded as the type of a ncAv 
department of the present family, the exponents of which 
are thus anomalously (though variously) modified. 
Apart from its totally blind condition, its 6-jointed funi- 
culus* and quadriarticulate feet, as well as from, the fact 
of its anterior coxfe being entirely and its intermediate 
ones almost contiguous, and its apparent freedom from 
tarsal claws, Oni/cholips is at once remarkable for its 
rather globose and testaceous body, Avliich is sparingly 
beset with exceedingly long silken jiile, and the surface of 
Avhich is somewhat uneven (being marked, or pitted, with 
large but shallow varioles, or irregular punctiform impres- 
sions) and slightly asperated, for its rostrum being short, 
broad, depressed, and subtriangidar, for its scutellum being 
distinct, and for its antennaj and legs being greatly abbre- 
viated. Indeed, the former are of a most curious struc- 
ture, their scape being so reduced in length as to be 
absolutely concealed within the short and deep auriculiform 
scrobs ; whilst its funiculus has the first tico{l) articula- 
tions very largely and subequally incrassated, with the 
remaining four minute ; and their club is extremely solid, 
and a])ically-i)ilose. And the latter, which are very short 
(especially as regards their femora), are still more extra- 
ordinary, — the two front tibia? being produced at their 
outer angle into an exceedingly elongated, tectiform lobe 
(which represents the ordinary hook) ; whilst the four 
hinder ones are powerfully developed, and spinulose along 
their exterior edge, and compressed at each of their angles 
(inner and outer) into a small obtuse lobiform plate, — 
between which the feet are implanted. These latter are 
on a pattern which is quite Avithont precedent in any 
Coleopterous insect Avith Avhich I am acquainted : for 
Avliile the anterior pair are abnormally shortened, narroAv, 
filiform, and quadri-articulate (the fifth joint being appa- 
rently lost, and the fourth, or terminal, one being sur- 
mounted by a tuft of elongate pile as though to represent 
the ungues), the remainiug ones have their basal joint 
abbreviated, the tAvo folloAving produced into a diAaricating 
spiniform lobe at each of their angles, and the fourth, as I 
believe, minute and completely soldered to, or merged into, 
the fifth (which, like those which precede it, is apically- 
* Lacordaire, in his ' Genera' (vide vii. 347), has inadvertently recorded 
Onycholips as possessing a 7-jointed fimicnhis. 
