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violet. Tho male differs in having longer antennai and the 

 posterior femora toothed in the middle. 



Egestria. 



(Pedilidffi.) 



Caput trigonatum,collo modice angusto; clypeus antice angustior, trun- 

 catus, sutura clypcali obsoleta ; lahrum breve, apice rotundatum ; 

 jurpdum antice pedunculatura. Palpi maxillares articulo ultimo 

 cultriformi. Oculi fere integri. Antennce breviusculae, filiformcs, 

 articulo primo modice incrassato, eseteris ad decimum fere sub- 

 a)(]uaUbus, ultimo in mare duobus vcl tribus praecedentibus con- 

 junctira longiore, in foemina paulo elongate. Prothora.v oblongus, 

 apice tubidatus et transversim sulcatus. Ehjtra elongata. Femora 

 vix incrassata ; tihioi rectse, bicalcarataj ; tarsi lineares, articulo 

 penultimo parvo, bdobo. Coxoi anticae cylindricse, exsertae ; ace- 

 tahula antiea aperta. Processus intercoxahs angustus, triangu- 

 laris. 



It would, I think, be desirable to unite, as J. du Val has 

 done, the ^^ Pedilides vraies'''' of Lacordaire to the Anthicidse, 

 the only point differentiating the two being the complete con- 

 tiguity, or nearly so, of the posterior coxaj in the fomier, a 

 variable character among the Heteromera, and subject to ex- 

 ceptions here. In the ])resent genus the intercoxal process 

 lies below the line of the coxai, while in Diacalla, to which it 

 is allied, this process distinctly separates them, its apex being 

 received into a notch of the metasternum. DiacaUa (Joiim. of 

 Ent. ii. p. 46) was originally referred by me to the Lagriidie ; 

 but on a closer re-examination I find tliat the anterior cotyloid 

 cavities are open behind, wliilst in Icfifiti/(//ia (/. c. ii. p. 491), 

 apparently very closely allied to it, they are closed in. This 

 character is supposed to be peculiar to the Lagriidaj and 

 Tenebrionid^e amongst all the families of Heteromera ; but in 

 Ictistygna it must be considered exceptional, as it would not 

 do to place it and DiacaJla in two different families. Besides 

 the two species here described, I have live others connected 

 with the genera mentioned above, but i\ot in sufficivMitly good 

 order for description. 



Egestria tceniata. PI. XIV. fig. 9 ( ? ). 



E. nigro-fusca, pilis griscis modice induta, clytris bnsi silaccis, sin- 

 gulis vitta flavescenti ab lumicro usque ad apicem oruatis ; capite 

 transverse, crebre punctate ; clypeo late triaugidari, apice rotun- 

 dato ; labro brevi ; anteunis testaceo-ferruginois, versus apicem 

 uigricantibus ; ])rotliorace pone medium paulo incurvato, ocidato- 

 })unctato ; scutello elongato-triaugulari ; elytris ^ sensim angus- 

 tatis. $ fere parallelis. sat oonfertim punctatis : tibiis, apice 



