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Head, in general, moderate, oval or sub-cylindrical, and visibly narrowed 

 behind ; eyes moderate or small, slightly prominent. Antennce, more or 

 less robust, always longer than the prothorax, composed of obconical 

 joints, sometimes elongated, sometimes short, in this case submonili- 

 form ; first joint rather stout, second shorter than those which follow, 

 these latter sub-equal, or decreasing gradually. Prothorax of variable 

 form, never very strongly transversal. Elytra in general rather long,- 

 sub-parallel, sinuated or not near the extremity, at most moderately 

 convex. Legs robust ; the three first joints of the front tarsi strongly 

 dilated among the males, the first longer than the next two, these more 

 or less transversal. 



NOTE. This is appended to enable colonial entomologists to refer 

 to the general characters of this sub-family. 



Group ANISODACTYLID^E. 



Ligula free at its extremity. Tarsi variable, sometimes all alike in 

 both sexes and spongy underneath, with their last joint strongly bi-lobed ; 

 generally the four basal joints of the front and middle tarsi dilated 

 among the males ; the first joint of the anterior sometimes expanded 

 among the females; the dilated joints always clothed underneath with 

 hairs, but not mingled with scales. 



Triplosarus. 



Bates ; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., March-April, 1874. 



Corpus breviter oblongum, sub-depressum. Caput pone oculos 

 haud angustatum. Mandibulse edentatse, basi latse, apice angustatse et 

 curvatae. Labrum medio leviter emarginatum, angulis rotundatis. 

 Mentum medio dente forti, acuto ; lobis extus valde rotundatis, apice 

 intus acutis ; epilobiis haud conspicuis. Ligula oblonga, apice libera, 

 recte truncata ; paraglossis apice -deque truncatis, longitudine et latitu- 

 dine ligulse sequalibus. Thorax transversim quadratus. Elytra apice 

 obtuse rotundata, paulo sinuata ; striola scutellaris longa, inter strias 

 primam et secundam posita. Tibia setosae ; anticse extus 5-spinosse. 



M. Tarsi quatuor anteriores articulis secundo ad quartum dilatatis, 

 pedum anteriorum brevissimi, intermediorum longiores cordati ; articulo 

 quarto nullomodo lobato; palmis ut in Anisodactylo dense breviter 

 setosis, planis ; articulo primo triangulari, subtus nudo. 



This genus differs from the other Anisodactylina in the form of its 

 head and mandibles, which resemble those of Phorticosomus, Cratacan- 

 thus, etc., but the eyes are rather prominent ; the suture separating the 

 epistome from the forehead is very sharply impressed, and has a short 

 deep frontal foveole near each end. The paraglossae are lateral, and 

 not placed behind the ligula, as in other genera of the group. 



94- T. fulvescens, Bates; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., March- 

 April, 1874. T. ochraceo-fulvus, subnitidus, capite thoraceque interdum 

 seneo tinctus ; thorace antice rotundato, postice modice angustato, 



