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the male, which are widely separated, the surface is broadly and 

 feebly concave, opaque, impunctate and glabrous, having anteriorly 

 a small fovea at some distance from the apex; the part behind the 

 coxae is very broadly truncate. The legs are notably long and 

 slender, the tibiae slightly bent at base and the ungues moderate. 

 The unique type is as follows: 



Selasella cuneipennis n. sp. — Stout, convex, polished and deep black through- 

 out; upper surface glabrous, the elytra with a few slender white squamules along 

 the intervals at base, more evident near the scutellum, and also with very few on 

 the fifth interval at some distance behind the middle; beneath each puncture 

 bears a more or less minute and inconspicuous squamule, dense and conspicuous, 

 however, on the met-episterna; beak ( 9 ) as long as the elytra, very little shorter 

 (o 71 ), subcylindric, shining, loosely seriato-punctate and glabrous, the antennae 

 piceo-rufous; prothorax large, not quite a third wider than long, the sides feebly 

 converging and just visibly arcuate, rounding in about apical two-fifths to the 

 oblique tubulation, which is much less than half as wide as the base in both sexes; 

 surface smooth, with a few moderate punctures at the extreme sides and on the 

 tubulation; basal lobe rapidly formed, with its apex deeply and narrowly sinuate; 

 scutellum quadrate, flat and free; elytra between a third and fourth longer than 

 wide, at the feebly prominent humeri only slightly wider than the prothorax and 

 scarcely one-half longer, the strongly oblique sides feebly and evenly arcuate, 

 the apex not very narrowly though strongly rounded; grooves sharply marked, 

 deep and smooth, a third as wide as the intervals, which have each a single series 

 of moderate punctures; male abdomen somewhat finely, sparsely punctured, not 

 distinctly impressed or modified at base. Length 3.5-3.65 mm.; width 1. 8-1. 85 

 mm. Brazil (Santarem). Two specimens. 



This is a very distinct species, readily identifiable by the widely 

 separated anterior coxae, broad flat prosternum and very notable 

 prosternal characters of the male. 



Clandius n. gen. 



The species of this genus are very much smaller than in the 

 genera of this section preceding Selasella, convex, with large protho- 

 rax and are more or less herissate with sparse slender squamules. 

 The beak is moderately thick, densely sculptured at the sides, 

 sparsely punctate and usually with two series of punctures medially 

 above, the series sometimes impressed; it is straight, bending more 

 or less at the extreme base and is separated from the convex head 

 by a very shallow impression. The mandibles are straight within 

 and prominent when closed, but they are short and somewhat 

 obtuse at apex; the antennae are very slightly behind the middle, 

 rather short, the funicle slender, its first joint as long as the next 

 three, 2-7 small, subequal, the club elongate-oval and abrupt, 

 about as long as the five preceding joints, with its first segment 

 somewhat more than half the mass. The anterior coxae are well 

 separated, the prosternum distinctly canalate, and the hind tibiae 

 are slender and much shorter than the femora. The head is un- 



