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the club being probably the seventh ; otherwise the latter has 
four joints, the last, however, not being quite so distinct as 
the three preceding. In this species the femora at about a 
quarter their length from the base are so constricted as to 
appear to be composed of two parts. ‘The same peculiarity 
may be noticed in some European species, e. g. N. séculus, 
globulus, posticus, &e. 
Nanophyes tarsalis. 
N. ovatus, niger, nitidus, pube grisea sparse tectus; rostro nigro ; 
scapo fulvo ; elytris modice elongatis, striatis, interstitiis convexis. 
Long. 13 lin. 
Hab. Bourou. 
A narrow species with a black rostrum, the elytra with 
coarser strize and narrower and convex interstices ; the legs, 
and especially the tarsi, considerably longer; there is the 
same peculiarity of antenna and femora; and the restrum, as 
in the two preceding, is bicanaliculate anteriorly. 
These three species of Nanophyes, and some other forms 
here described, were collected by Mr. Wallace some twenty- 
five years ago. Recent collectors appear to care little for 
“small game,” whilst this distinguished naturalist neglected 
nothing, however insignificant to the ordinary collector*. 
BYRSIA. 
Rostrum tenuatum, arcuatum, fere denudatum; screbes maris medi- 
an, femine basi propria, laterales. Ocul: rotundati. Antenne 
graciles ; scapus clavatus ; funiculus longiusculus, articulo primo 
longtore et crassiore ; clava distincta, breviter ovata. Prothorax 
transversus, antice breviter constrictus, lateribus ampliato-rotun- 
datis, basi subsinuatus. Scutellum distinctum. EHlytra subcor- 
data, prothorace basi latiora. Pectus excavatum. Cow anticie 
contigue. Mesosternum angustum, declive. Abdomen segmentis 
duobus basalibus amphatis, sutura in medio obsoleta. Processus 
interfemoralis latus, truncatus. Pedes normales; femora mutica ; 
unguiculi liberi. 
In Lacordaire’s arrangement this genus would stand near 
Colobodes, unless he placed it as an exception elsewhere— 
perhaps by Lrirhinus. ‘he excavated pectus blocked be- 
hind by the contiguity of the anterior coxe is a character that 
is found in some of the Ithyporine. ‘The species described 
below is closely covered with waxy-looking scales. 
* Mr. Wallace’s collection from the Malay:archipelago, now in my 
possession, amounted to about 900 species, few of which were previously 
known. Many of these are described and figured in the Journal of the 
Linnean Society (Zoology, vols. x., xi., and xii.) and in these ‘ Annals,’ 
