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8. Brontes denticulatus. 



Head and thorax ferruginous, and rugose-punctate, the former 

 having a transverse deep groove on the vertex, from which two pa- 

 rallel grooves emanate, and run down the face to the base of the 

 clypeus : the anterior angles of the thorax produced, the lateral mar- 

 gins sharply denticulated : abdomen ; the scutellum, and the entire 

 margins of the elytra ferruginous: elytra black, deeply crenate-striate, 

 a sharp elevated carina running from the shoulder to the apex of the 

 elytra, slightly inclining inwards: the entire body beneath and the 

 legs ferruginous. 



Length 2i lines. 



a. New Holland. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



Genus 3. PLATISUS. 

 Platisus, Erichs. Wiegm. Arch. 216, 1842. 



1. Platisus obscurus. 

 Platisus obscurus, Erichs. Wieg. Arch. 216, 155. 

 a. New Holland. Presented by Sir John Richardson, M.D. 



Genus 4. TELEPHANUS. 

 Telephanus, Erichs. Ins. Deuts. {Note),329, 1845 — 8. 



1. Telephanus atricapillus. 

 Telephanus atricapillus, Erichs. Naturg. Ins. Deuts. (^Note), 330. 

 Has. — United States (Pennsylvania). 



Genus 5. PSAMM^CHUS. 



Latridius, p., Herbst, Kafer. v. 3, 1793. 



Anthicus, Fah. Syst. Eleut. i. 228, 1801. 



Notoxus, Panz. Faun. Germ. 26, 9. 



Crypta {Kirhj), Steph. III. Brit. Ent. Mand. iii. 6, 1830. 



Psammaechus, Boudier, Lucas, Rev. Zool. 



