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and legs reddish chesnnt, nitid, thinly pubescent ; tarsi ashy, with 

 the penultimate joint black ; antennas brown, the fourth joint only 

 whitish at the base. 

 Length 7 lines. 



Ereis. 

 Eris, Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 2, iv. 110 (nee Koch). 

 Caput antice qnadraturn, tuberibus antennif'eris brevibus, apice 

 integris. Oculi frontales, mod ice emarginati. Antennce cor- 

 pore multo longiores ; scapo elongato, siibcylindrico, apice 

 cicatricoso, extus producto ; articulo tertio longiore, apice 

 hand dentato ; cseteris gradatim brevioribus et tenuioribus, 

 Prolhorax fere quadratus, muticus, capita baud latior. Ely^ 

 tra oblonga, depiessa, subcarinata. Pedes mediocres \ femora 

 baud clavata ; lib'uv intermedia; integrae ; tarsi subangustati. 

 Prosternum elevatum, postice perpendiculare. Mesosternum 

 antice dentatum. 



When I proposed this genus some years ago I was unacquainted 

 with its two nearest allies, Planodes and Jnancylus, and was 

 therefore very doubtful as to its affinities. The former of these 

 it most nearly resembles in habit, but differs in its short or almost 

 obsolete antennary tubers remote at the base, and in its normal 

 antennae; from the latter it differs in habit, shorter antennae 

 and the presence of raised lines on the elytra. The lower lobe 

 of the eye is much more frontal than is usual in this sub-family. 

 A second species has been described in the Journal of Entomology 

 (vol. i. p. S-i?) from Cambodia, and I have now a third species,* 

 also from Cambodia, which departs from the type in having its 

 prothorax more rouiided at the sides, and its elytra shorter and 

 more convex ; its abdominal segments also, at least the three inter- 

 mediate ones, are furnished with semicircular patches of coarse 

 hairs, as in Symphyletes and some other genera. 



The word Eris bad been previously used by Koch for a genus 

 oi Arachnida ; I have therefore altered it to Ereis. 



* This may be characterized as follows : — 

 Ereis ventralis. 



E. fusca, sparse irregulariter griseo-pubescens j prothorace subtrans verso, 

 lateraliter rotundato, minute granulato ; elytris brevibus, convexis, ca- 

 rinis fere obsoletis, nigro-maculatis, praecipue post medium Ymek trans- 

 versa macularum ; corpore infra fusco, subuitido, abdomine glabro, 

 segmentis tribus intermediis lateribus dense pilosis ; tibiis tarsisque 

 annulatis ; antennis nigro-maculatis. Long. 6 lin. 



