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abdomen with the segments free ; tarsi with the last joint much longer 

 than the penultimate. 



I. Anti-nine widely distant at base, inserted on the forehead 



above the base of the mandible*. 

 i. Anterior coial cavities round ; third joint of the tarsi always 



bilobed EUMOLPIWA. 



ii. Anterior ooxal cavities transverse ; third joint of the tarsi 



either entire, etnar<pnate or bilobed at apex CHUYS JMELIXA. 



II. Antennae approximate or comparatively approximate at base, 



usually inserted on the forehead between the eyes .... GALEEUCIKA. 



EUMOLPINA. 



This important tribe contains upwards of one hundred and fifty genera, 

 which, however, for the most part contain only a small or comparatively 

 small number of species ; they are chiefly found in tropical countries, 

 only eleven genera and twenty-six species occurring in Europe ; one 

 only is found in Britain, Lamprosoma (Oomo^hus) concolor, which in 

 the Munich catalogue is classed with the genus Lycnopliaes under a 

 separate tribe Lamprosomina ; the Eumolpina are chiefly distinguished 

 by having the clypeus emarginate, the antennae broadly distant at base 

 and inserted on the forehead behind the base of the mandibles, the 

 anterior coxae round, and the tarsi with the penultimate joint plainly 

 bilobed. 



XiAMP&OSOMA, Kirby. (Oomorphus, Curtis.) 



This genus contains, as far as is at present known, about one hundred 

 and twenty species, of which no less than thirty-nine have been described 

 since the publication of the Munich catalogue ; the majority of the 

 species are found in Central America and Brazil, Cayenne, Bolivia, &c., 

 but a few have been described from North America, Cuba, and other 

 neighbouring localities; only one species occurs in Europe, which was 

 described by Curtis; its position for some time was much disputed ; 

 Stephens placed it near Simplocaria with the Byrrhidae; it is a small 

 and very shining black insect, and at first sight strongly resembles a 

 Phcedon ; the head is small and sunk in the thorax, and the mandibles 

 are short and stout; the antennae are received in furrows on the pro- 

 sternum, and are short; the mesosternum is hidden ; the legs are stout, 

 with the tarsi dilated, and the claws are thin and small. 



Zi. concolor, Sturm. Ovate, very convex, shining black with a 

 slight bronze reflection ; head exceedingly finely wrinkled, antennas 

 short with joints 7, 9, 10, and 11 thickened, the 8th being smaller, 

 2nd joint red ; thorax transverse, much narrowed in front, rather thickly 

 and lint-ly punctured ; scutellum small ; elytra with rather tine rows of 

 larger punctures, intoistices broad and very finely and diffusely punctured; 

 legs black, claws very small; the punctuation is rather stronger in certain 

 larger specimens, which are perhaps females. L. 2-3 mm. 



