G08 Capt. T. Broun on 7iew 



with one setigerous puncture near eacli front angle, its basal 

 suture simple and rather fine. Lahrum quadrate, only slightly 

 emarginate, quadrisetose. Eyes large, only moderately con- 

 vex, distant from thorax. Antennce slender, reaching back- 

 wards to base of thorax, tlieir first two joints and the basal 

 portion of the third glabrous, the others pubescent ; second 

 joint nearly as long as first, but shorter than third. Tihice 

 "setose, the anterior with strong apical spurs, the others 

 bicalcarate. Tarsi, anterior with triangular basal joints, 2-i 

 widely dilated, quite transverse, fourth very short, deeply 

 excavate at the extremity, but only feebly lobale ; basal joints 

 of the intermediate longer than tliose of the front pair, 2-4 

 also rather longer, second joint cordate ; posterior slender, 

 simple. Thorax transverse, cordate-quadrate, base truncate 

 and resting on the elytra ; there is a single seta on each side 

 before the middle. ScuteUum short. Ehjtra oblong, much 

 narrowed, yet only slightly sinuated, posteriorly ,• apices 

 rounded. 



This is unlike our- other genera. In the structure of the 

 tarsi it approximates Tnplosarus ; there, however, the resem- 

 blance ends. The large head, with the eyes placed much in 

 advance of those of EuiJienarus, Hypharpax, and Lecano- 

 niei-iis, and the posteriorly attenuate hind body, together with 

 the dense squamiform or spongy vestiture of the soles of the 

 front tarsi, are distinctive. 



Allocinopus scuJpticolh's, sp. n. 



Ohiorig, slightly convex, moderately nitid, nigrescent ; legs, 

 antennae, and palpi testaceous. 



Bead rather longer than thorax and almost as broad in its 

 widest part as that is, with some feeble linear sculpture on the 

 epistome ; the frontal fovea are small and are situated a little 

 further forward than the eyes; there is a single puncture in 

 line with the middle of each eye. Mandibles stout, moderately 

 long, curved at apex, pitchy red. Thorax 1 line long by If 

 broad, widest just before the middle, widely sinuate or 

 narrowed behind, posterior angles rectangular and a little 

 obtuse, apex widely and slightly incurved, lateral margins 

 and channels w^ell developed; the dorsal groove extends from 

 the base, but does not attain the front ; the basal fossa are 

 rather shallow and elongate and are placed halfway between 

 the middle and sides ; there are some indistinct transverse 

 striola on the disk, and the slightly flattened area extending 

 along each side from the middle to the base is finely punc- 

 tured ; the surface is densely but minutely sculptured 



