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Mr. G. C. Champion on the 



on the front feet is also present in the corresponding sex of 

 the Dasytid-genns Lohonyx, Jacq. Duval, in wliich^ however, 

 it is restricted to joints 2 and 3, the basal joint being 

 relatively shorter than in the genera here studied ; this 

 structure, clearly visible in males of Lobonyx captured by 

 myself in Spain and Algeria, has been figured and described 

 by Duval (Gen. Coleopt. Europ. iii. p. 183, pi. 46. fig. 225 c). 

 Other cJ -characters, apart from the usually larger eyes, 

 the stronger serration of the antennae in /. virhlipennis and 



Idf/ia pledrophora, sp. n., anterior leg, J {cf. p. 330). 



belli, and the emargination of the fifth ventral segment, 

 have been detected in certain cases, such as the thickening 

 of the posterior femora, the curvature or sinuation of the 

 posterior tibise, the acutely produced posterior trochanters, 

 the form of the basal joint of the anterior and intermediate 

 tarsi, &c. 



In one species, /. plectrophora, all the tibial spurs are 

 longer than usual in both J and ? ; and in another the 



