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Diacallina, n. gen. 



Head moderately large, feebly developed behind the eyes, with 

 a stout, sharply defined, cylindrical neck, the epistoma confused 

 with the front; labrum short, broad; eyes very large, transverse, 

 subapproximate above, distant beneath, feebly sinuate in front; 

 mandibles bent inward from about the middle, stout, unemarginate 

 at tip; maxillary palpi stout, joints 2 and 3 triangular, 4 broad, 

 securiform; antennae slender, joint 11 constricted beyond the 

 middle and slightly elongated ; prothorax subcordate, immarginate 

 laterally, margined at the base, constricted and tubulate in front; 

 elytra long, closely seriato-punctate, the epipleura narrow, com- 

 plete; prosternum not separated from the propleura; anterior 

 coxae large, conical, contiguous, the cavities closed behind by the 

 inward extension of the prothoracic epimera; intermediate coxae 

 almost contiguous; metasternum deeply sulcate from before the 

 middle to the apex; ventral segments subequal in length, the 

 intercoxal process narrow, lanciform; legs stout; tibiae asperate, 

 with strong spurs; tarsi with a broadly lobed penultimate joint, 

 the claws long, widened at the base ; body villose, coarsely sculptured. 



Type, D. mvltiforis. 



The W. African species forming the type of this genus 

 has the general facies of a Clerid. It is very like DiaeaUa, 

 type D. comata, Pasc, from Queensland; differing from 

 that insect in the closed anterior coxal cavities, the very 

 large eyes, the stout maxillary palpi, the stronger tibial 

 spurs, the broadly lobed penultimate joint to the tarsi, 

 and the seriate arrangement of the closely packed foveiform 

 punctures on the elytra. The whole insect is strongly 

 villose. The roughened tibiae are suggestive of Ictistygna. 



1. Diacallina multiforis, n. sp. (Plate LXIII, figs. 7, <£; 

 la, antenna.) 



Elongate, robust, rather convex, moderately shining; piceous or 

 reddish-brown, the prothorax, antennae, tibiae, tarsi, and meta- 

 sternum nigro-piceous or piceous, the femora ferruginous at the 

 base; sparsely clothed with long, decumbent, fulvous or cinereous 

 hairs, those on the head and prothorax still longer and erect, the 

 legs with numerous very long hairs intermixed. Head densely, 

 rugosely punctate, arcuately narrowed behind the eyes, the latter 

 extremely large in $, a little smaller in $, somewhat narrowly 

 separated; antennae moderately long, joint 2 shorter than 3, 

 3-10 long, obconic, subequal, 11 considerably longer than 10, con- 



