Genera and Sj)ec{es of Coleoptera. 25 



tlie outer, both densely ciliated, their palpi long, with the last joint 

 securiform ; labium thin, quadrate, fringed anteriorly, its palpi sub- 

 filiform, rather elongate, arising from near the centre of the labium ; 

 mentum subtransverse, rounded at the sides, peduncle of the jugular 

 plate as broad as the labium ; prothorax broadly ovate, constricted in 

 front, so as to form a sort of collar ; scutellum triangular ; elytra much 

 broader than the prothorax, gradually tapering behind, roimded at the 

 apex ; legs rather short, tibite terminated by two spines, basal joint of 

 the anterior tarsi short, the intermediate and posterior gradually longer; 

 body beneath slightly hairy, the abdomen with a reddish tinge. Length 

 5 lines. 



The above description is from a female. A male which I believe 

 belongs to this species is smaller, more haiiy, the terminal joint of 

 the antenna? much longer, and the abdomen without the reddish 

 tinge. 



GoETTMES [Cantharidae]. 



Caput magnum, fronte convexa ; oculis reniformibus. Anieuncs breves, 

 frontales, articulo prime subtrigono, incurvato, in sulco infra oculos 

 recepto, secundo tertioque brevibus, reliquis flabellatis. Tibice uni- 

 calcaratag. Tarsi breves, unguiculis simplicibus. 



The nearest ally of this genus is Sitajida, 'White, from which, inter 

 alia, it differs, as it does from every other of the family, in its tlabel- 

 late antennae, which resemble Evaniocera in the nearly allied group 

 of Ehipophoridae. The difference between the antennsD of the two 

 genera, however, requires to be more clearly contrasted. In both 

 they are 11 -jointed ; but in Sitarida the first four are simple, while 

 each of the remaining seven throws out laterally and at the base a 

 short square lamina — this portion of the antenna being, in fact, pec- 

 tinate. In Goetymes, the first three joints only are simple, the 

 remainder being drawn out into long lamina), closely applied to each 

 other at the base, and forming a compact mass when at rest. For 

 the protection of this delicate part in repose, there is a groove be- 

 neath the eye, which receives the basal joint, and thus allow^s the 

 whole antenna to be kept weU under the head and breast ; and this 

 purpose is facilitated by the antenna not arising in the space formed 

 by the emargination of the eye (which, I believe, is almost invariably 

 the case whenever that organ is reniform or emarginate, and which 

 is apparently so constructed for the express purpose), but below this 

 space, and in front of the inferior portion of the eye. It may be 

 added that the emargination above mentioned is occupied by a 

 short, obtuse process, a simple development of the front. 



