180 Mr. A. Sidney Olliff's remarks on a small 



less strongly punctured. Tibiae and tarsi pitchy, the 

 tips of the claws black. Length, 4^ mm. ; width, 

 3f mm. 



In form this species resembles the genus Latolceva, 

 Reitter (Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. xx., p. 75), the type of 

 which is the well-known Peltis ovalis, MacLeay, but in 

 the structure of the head and prosternum it agrees 

 best with Ancyrona. 



LOPHOCATERES, n. g. 



Head nearly quadrate. Eyes rather small, lateral, 

 not prominent. Antennae 11-jointed, basal joint large, 

 with the inner angle much produced, 2nd joint short, 

 3rd rather longer, 4th to 7th transverse and very short, 

 last four forming a gradually elongated club, of which 

 the joints increase in breadth as they approach the apex. 

 Mandibles robust, inner margin straight, the apex 

 slightly incurved. Maxillae with both lobes narrow and 

 sharply jointed, the inner much the shorter. Maxillary 

 palpi 3-jointed, the basal very small, the 2nd rather 

 longer, the 3rd longer than the 1st and 2nd together, 

 rounded at the apex. Labium with the anterior margin 

 rounded. Labial palpi 2-jointed, of which the apical is 

 somewhat the longer. Prothorax transversely quadrate, 

 rather strongly margined laterally. Elytra about the 

 same width as the prothorax, depressed, covering the 

 abdomen, subparallel, with fine costae. Legs short and 

 slender ; tibiae armed on their outer margins with short, 

 sharp spines, the posterior tibiae with a row of blunt 

 teeth at the base, slightly projecting over the 1st joint 

 of the tarsus, tibial spurs short ; tarsi 5-jointed, the 

 basal very short, the 2nd and 3rd rather longer, the 4th 

 shorter, and the 5th nearly as long as the other four 

 together ; claws simple. 



The fine but distinct costae on the elytra, the 

 gradual 4-jointed club of the antennae, and the peculiar 

 structure of the posterior tibiae, are characters which 

 will serve at once to distinguish this genus. Its exact 

 position must for the present remain doubtful, although 

 I have no hesitation in referring it to the subfamily 

 Peltince, and it should, I think, be placed near Eronyxa, 

 Eeitter (Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr., xx. (1876), p. 83), 

 although differing widely from that genus. 



