152 NATURAL HISTORY oj* 



ZIROPHORUS EXAftATUS. 



PLATE V. FIG. 4. 

 iroph. exaratus. Dejcau* 



The length is about nine lines. It is of a uniform 

 black colour, very smooth and shining, the tarsi alone 

 and the hairs on the antennae and legs, being brown. 

 The mandibles are slightly curved upwards at the 

 tip, and furnished with two or three large angular 

 projections or teeth. The head, which is very short 

 and wide, has a deeply impressed line down the 

 middle, meeting at right angles a transverse one 

 behind the Lead. The thorax and elytra are nearly 

 of equal width, the surface flat, very smooth and 

 shining, and the former having a line down the 

 middle. The abdomen is very narrow, and fringed 

 with brown hairs, the terminal segment conical. 

 The under parts of the body and legs are black and 

 shining ; the anterior tibiae armed with small teeth 

 on the outer edge. The tarsi are brown or pitch- 

 red. Inhabits Brazil, occurring not unfrequently. 



SERRICORNES. 



The next division of the pentamerous Coleoptera 

 which presents itself to our notice, includes an ex- 

 tensive variety of species, in which the antennae are 

 more or less obviously serrated or pectinated, on 



