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dric; joint 2 is small, rounded, 4—10 subequal, and with the 11th 

 oval. The thorax is small, only half as large as the head, rather 

 narrowed, strongly transverse, twice as broad as long, slightly 

 emarginated in front; the anterior angles rounded, contracted 

 below the middle, subquadrate and prolonged at the base ; pos- 

 terior angles depressed, longitudinally divided by a deep furrow. 

 The elytra are striated, and, like the thorax, densely punctured 

 and thinly pubescent. The legs are strong, simple, and sub- 

 equal; the anterior tibia3 are deeply notched; the first joint of 

 the tarsi is as long as the two succeeding ones together, siib- 

 eylindric, the second triangular, the third of a similar but more 

 transverse form, smaller — all three have the apical angles acumi- 

 nated, the fourth is large and deeply bilobed, the fifth middling, 

 thin ; the claws simple. The tarsi are altogether short and 

 strong, the first joint is furnished with longer, the second and 

 third with shorter stiff hair, whilst the fourth is strongly peni- 

 cillated below. The anterior tibiae are slightly spinose, the 

 others more so. 



I believe the only specimen of this insect which has hitherto 

 come into my possession, and which has served as a type for the 

 above description, to be a female. 



Tribe Galeritid^. 

 Heteroglossa, n. g., N. 



Corpus oblongum, subparallelum, depressum, tenuiter hirsutum. 

 Caput mediocre, oculis semiglobosis, sat prominulis ; cello brevi. 

 Mentum sat profunda subquadrate e marginatum, lobis magnis, extus 

 fortiter rotundatis, apice abrupte acuminatis, dente magno excavato, 

 apice inflecto, obtuso, magis minusve profunde sinuato. Ligula 

 subcornea, apice libera, truucata, vel quadrata, vel obconica vel 

 leviter bisinuata ; paraglossis cylindricis, marginem anteriorem lou- 

 gissirae superautibus, magis minusve arcuatis. Palpi hirsuti, art. 

 ultimo sat elongato, subcylindrico, apice truacato vel subtrigono. 

 Labrum transversum, antice emarginatum. Mandibulae validse, tri- 

 gonse, apice arcuatse, basi pluries dentatse. Antennae robustse, cor- 

 poris med. attiugentes, art. 1° incrassato, sequentibus 2 longiore, 

 2° parvo, 3-1 1 subeequalibus. Thorax subcordatus, basi transver- 

 sim truncatus leviterque prolongatus. Pedunculus brevis. Elytra 

 apice fortiter subquadrate truncata, costata, costis 16 majoribus, 

 in interstitiis subtilissime bicostulata, in sulcis (sulco e tribus inter 

 costas biuas majores medio excepto) tenuiter pilosa, in omnibus 

 trausversim rugulosa. Pedes anteriores tibiis sat fortiter emargi- 

 natis, tarsis maris art. 1-3 leviter dilatatis, subtus squamularum 

 seriebus 2 munitis, art. 1° elongato-trigono, 2-3 rotundato-trigonis, 

 3" prsecedente parum miuore, 4° parvo cordato 3° plus sesqui miuore, 

 his omnibus angulis acvuninatis, 5° magno, unguibus simplicibus. 



This diagnosis may appear somewhat vague, still I have been 



