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XX. RemarJcs on the Genus Ectrephes^ and Descriptions 

 of new Exotic Coleoptera. By J. O. Westwood, 

 M.A., F.L.S., &c. 



[Read 7tli June, 1869.] 



Genus Ectrephes, Pascoe. 



E ctrephes, F&acoe, Proc. Ent. Soc, Lond. 1866, p. xvi; 

 Zoologist, ser. 2, vol. i. p. 322. 



Anapestus, King, Trans. Ent. Soc, N. S. Wales, i. 316. 



Mr. Pascoe^s description of this curious genus was read 

 at the meeting of this Society, on the 4th June, 1866, 

 and was published in the following month. Mr. King's 

 memoir was read before the Entomological Society of 

 New South Wales on the 5th March, 1866, but the sheet 

 of the Transactions on which it is printed contains the 

 commencement of Mr. McLeay's paper on Amycteridce, 

 which was read on the 6th August, 1866, and Part V. of 

 the Transactions, in which both papers appeared, con- 

 tains the Journal of Proceedings for the 3rd September, 

 1866. 



The genus has been considered to be allied to the 

 Paussidce, as well as to the genus Gnostiis. But it pos- 

 sesses no direct affinity with either of these groups; and 

 is proved, by the analysis of the forms described below, 

 to be most nearly related to the Ptinidce, especially to 

 such groups as Mezium and Gihhium. 



Sp. 1. Ectrephes formicarum, Pascoe. 



E . formicarum, Pasc. (Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1866, 



p. xvi) = Anapestus Kreusleri, King, (Trans. Ent. 



Soc. N. S. W. i. 318). 



Sp. 2. Ectrephes Pascoei, n. sp. 



E. totus piceo-castaneus ; elytris nitidis, subsetigeris ; 

 antennarum clava oblongo-ovali, depressa ; disco supero 

 et infero transverse tri-impresso, marginibus pauUo un- 

 dulatis et breviter spinulosis ; pronoto transverse, quad- 

 rate, impressione transversa postica profunda notato; 



TRANS, ent. soc. 1869. PART IV. (aUGUST) . 



