Genera and S2)ecies 0/ Colcoptcra. 9 



sions which arc common to many Colydiidoc. There is some donbt 

 as to the tarsi : the anterior has live joints, although the hasal one 

 is only visible from beneath, as shown in the right-hand figure 

 (PI. III. fig. 1) ; but the remainder apjiear to have only four. The 

 head, from its great breadth, appears to be only very slightly ex- 

 serted. I have five or six species of this subfamily in my collection, 

 which I have not yet examined. 



Crine cephalotes. (PI. III. fig. 1.) 

 C feiTuginea, nitida; capita prothoraceque vage, elytria seriatim punc- 



tatis. 

 Hah. Ega (Amazons). 



Short, depressed, ferruginous, shining, the sides nearly straight, but 

 gradually becoming narrower from the eye to the last abdominal seg- 

 ment ; head and prothorax with large, scattered, shallow punctures, 

 the latter with a smooth central ovate space, slightly contracted ante- 

 riorly, extending from the base to the fore margin, and siuroimded by 

 a line of strong punctures ; scutellum nearly triangular ; elytra abruptly 

 roimded at the apex, with about seven rows of oblong punctures on 

 each; pygidium strongly punctured; legs and body beneath feiTU- 

 ginous ; abdomen, except the basal segment, strongly punctured ; eyes 

 dark brown ; head large, triangular, deflexed, with a gi'oove extending 

 from the insertion of the antennae to the mandibles; epistome very 

 small, concealing the lip ; eyes lateral, prominent ; antennae exposed 

 at the base, twelve-jointed, the first large, obconic, the second and 

 third successively smaller, the fourth to the ninth inclusive subequal in 

 length, but gradually becoming more and more transverse, the tenth 

 largest of all, and with the gradually diminishing eleventh and twelfth 

 fonning a shortly ovate club ; palpi short, stout ; labium oblong, 

 mentum transvei-se ; prothorax transversely quadrate ; elytra as broad 

 as the prothorax at the base ; legs short, coxae subremote, interfemoral 

 process truncate anteriorly ; tibiae trigonate, the border at the distal end 

 spinous beneath ; tarsi short, the anterior five-jointed, the last as long 

 as the rest together ; abdomen with five segments, the three interme- 

 diate very short and equal. Length 1 line. 



Phoemesa [Colydiidae]. 

 Caput insertum, subquadratum, ante oculos dilatatum. Anteyincp basi 

 tectae, clava biarticulata, sulcis antennariis brevibus. ^fentum qua- 

 dratum. 3Iaxill(p, lobis angustatis. Prothorax transversus, antice 

 sinuatus, marginibus dilatatis, crenatis. Tihice lineares, breviter calca- 

 ratae. Tarsi articulis tribus primis brevibus. 



It will be seen from these characters that this genus differs but in 

 few particulars from Bitoma ; the presence of antennary grooves and 

 the dilated margin of the prothorax are, however, of too much im- 



