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Black, shining ; head glossy, very minutely punctured ; 

 clypeal suture marked by a smooth arched line only ; two small 

 impressed curved lines between the eyes ; prothorax longer in 

 proportion to the width, very smooth, anterior angles rounded, 

 the posterior narrowly produced in the male ; scutellum tri- 

 angular ; elytra narrower anteriorly and not much broader than 

 the prothorax at the base, the greatest width a little distance 

 from the apex in the male, the base broader in the female, 

 punctate-striate as in the last ; body beneath and legs pitchy ; 

 anterior tibia3 in the males much longer than the rest, strongly 

 arched, and having a tuft of golden hairs at the apex ; in the 

 females shorter, less arched, and without the tuft at the apex. 

 Length 6|- lines. 



Ephidonius. 



Subfamily Tenebrionin^. 



Caput exsertum, rhomboideum, pone oculos elongatum. 

 Tihice lortiter calcaratae ; tarsi subtus subnudi. 



Head exserted, rhomboidal, broad in front, gradually nar- 

 rowed behind the eyes ; clypeus widely emarginate at the apex, 

 its suture nearly straight, except at the sides. Eyes small, 

 rather narrow, transverse . Antennae slender ; third j oint longest ; 

 fourth, fifth, and sixth shorter, obconic, nearly equal in length ; 

 seventh to tenth more or less obovate ; the last ovate, pointed, 

 scarcely longer than the tenth. Mentum trapezoidal, broadest 

 and truncate anteriorly. Labium corneous in the middle, with 

 two rounded membranous lobes at the sides ; its palpi elongate, 

 a little thicker outwards. Maxillae with two short lobes, the 

 inner narrow and unarmed ; maxillary palpi with the first 

 joint very short, second long, the last obconic, truncate at the 

 apex. Prothorax ti'ansverse, slightly emarginate anteriorly, 

 anterior angles not produced, sides rounded, without a raised 

 border, and terminating in well-marked posterior angles, base 

 broad and subtruncate. Elytra ovate, slightly convex, broader 

 than the prothorax. Femora sublinear; tibias strongly spurred; 

 tarsi slender, gradually longer from the anterior, nearly naked 

 beneath, except a few sette at tlie tips. Prosternum narrow, 

 declivous ; mesosternum V-shaped ; metasternum moderately 

 elongate. Abdomen with the fourth segment very short, its 

 sutural edge arched. 



The general appearance of the insect forming the type of 

 this genus is more nearly that of IphtMmus italicus than any 

 other known to me. The vestiture of the tarsi, however, and 

 the presence of spurs to the tibiae is sufficiently distinctive ; 

 the former character, indeed, may lead to the doubt of its be- 



