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robustae ; articulo undecimo multo longiore, crasso. Mentum parvum, 

 emarginatione semicirculari, dente mediano prominulo acuto. Ligula 

 cornea, oblonga, apice libera bisetosa ; paraglossis ipsa duplo latioribus 

 et multo longioribus, apice late rotundatis. 



M. Tarsi quatuor anteriores articulis quatuor valde dilatatis \ primo 

 triangulari ; secundo ad quartum brevissimis et latissimis ; quarto bilobo; 

 omnibus laciniis argenteis longissimis vestitis. 



The insects on which this distinct new genus is founded resemble 

 the Bradycelli and small Stenolophi of the Northern Hemisphere, but 

 are widely different in the clothing of the four dilated palms of the male. 

 This is unlike either the squamae arranged in pairs of the true Har- 

 palidcB, or even the brush of short vertical hairs of the Anisodactylina, 

 but consists of a few very long linear hair-scales set obliquely on the 

 broad palms and forming a broad fringe to the feet. The paraglossae 

 also differ from those of the Harpali in being very broad, not tapering 

 to the apex, but broadly rounded. The frontal fovese of the head form 

 short striae curving to the inner margin of the eye. The thorax is quad- 

 rate. The elytra are obtuse at the apex, with a strong sinuation ; the 

 scutellar striole is rudimentary between the first and second striae ; the 

 third interstice has one puncture. The males have a hairy fovea in the 

 middle of the first ventral segment, like the Tachycelli. 



103. E. brevicollis, Bates; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., March- 

 April, 1874. E. oblongus, fusco-fceneus ; elytris subcupreis ; antennis 

 basi, palpis apice, genibusque piceo-rufis ; thorace postice paululum 

 angustato, angulis posticis obtusis fere rotundatis, fovea utrinque lata 

 sparsim punctulata \ elytris acute striatis, interstitiis planis. 



Long., 2f lin. M.F. 



Lake Coleridge ; under stones in dry lagoon (C. M. Wakefield). 



Immature specimens have testaceous yellow legs and pale under 

 surface of body ; but the dark brassy colour of the head and thorax and 

 cupreous elytra remain in all the numerous individuals sent. The hind 

 angles of the thorax are distinct in some examples and perfectly rounded 

 off in others ; the basal fovese also vary in the amount of punctation, 

 which is always rather coarse. 



104. E. punctiCOlliS, Bates; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., March- 

 April, 1874. E. oblongus, fusco-piceus aeneo tinctus vel cupreo- 

 aeneus ; antennis basi, palpis basi et apice, pedibus (femoribus interdum 

 exceptis) rufo-piceis ; thorace longiore, postice subsinuatim paulo angus- 

 tato, angulis posticis fere rectis, fovea basali grosse punctata; elytris 

 apice fortiter sinuatis, subtruncatis. 



Long., 2 f lin. M.F. 



Apparently distinct from E. brevicollis, although similar in size and 

 colouration. It is decidedly slenderer, with longer thorax, the posterior 

 narrowing of which is slightly incurved and the hind angles more dis- 

 tinct. The general colour is less metallic, and the side rims of the 

 thorax are pale, which is sometimes the case with E. brevicollis. A 

 better distinction is the more transverse and stronger sinuation of the 



