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Size very small. Testaceous, variegated with brownish. Monotypic. 
New Zealand. N. variegatus, Brunner. 
2.2. Fore and middle femora unarmed at the apex, or with 
only a few spinelets. Huropean, American and Australian 
genera. 
3. Hind tibie above with one of the spinelets usually remote 
from the others, which are crowded, below terete, rarely spined. 
DOLICHOPOD.. 
4. Antenne slender. Styles absent. European species. 
4.4. Antenne incrassated, contiguous at the base. Subgenital 
lamina of male lanceolate, styles present. New Zealand species. 
PacuyrHaMMA, Sr. (Mon., 301, fig. 29). 
a. Fore femora below unarmed, hind ones very narrowed, about one 
and a half times the length of the body. 
P. Edwardsi, Scudder. 
aa. Fore femora below with three or four small spinelets on the 
anterior margin. Hind femora scarcely longer than the body, 
base incrassated. P. Nova-zealandie, Br. 
3.3. Hind tibie above with most of the spines remote from 
each other, also the spinelets small or tooth-like rarely crowded. 
One European, five American, and one Australian genus. 
CEUTEPHILI. 
4. Hind tibie below with crowded spinelets, suleate. Europe. 
TROGLOPHILUS, Arauss. 
4.4. Hind tibie below with distant spinelets, terete. All 
American and Australian species. 
5. Hind tarsi above with first and second joints hirsute or 
with two rows of spinelets. Antenne fasciculately pilose beyond 
the middle. American genus. 
HETEROMALLUS, Sr. (Mon., fig. 35). 
5.5. Hind tarsi above with first and second joints unarmed or 
shining, except the apex of the latter. New Zealand. 
Taitropis, Bollen (Br., Mon., 312, fig. 36). 
Monotypic. Shiningly ferruginous. Rather small. 
T. Sedilloti, Bollen. 
PENTHOPLOPHORA,* gen. nov. 
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Head elongate. Vertex produced beyond the eyes. Fasti- 
gium rounded, narrow towards theapex. Medial ocelliform spot, 
minute, annular, indistinct, lateral spots absent. Antenne 
scarcely one and a half times the length of the body. Eyes 
large, reniform, depressed. Face flat. Clypeus transverse. 
Labrum obovate, longer than wide, base stout. Mandibles 
covered. Palpi very slender. Pronotum rounded, lobes higher 
than long, highest behind, inferior sub-semicircular. Fore cox 
* Five-armed, 
