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than the elytra in the greater number; the pronotum always confounded 

 with its flanks. Elytra without epipleural folds. The front and hind 

 coxa contiguous, the latter sometimes only sub-contiguous, the former 

 conical or cylindrical, prominent, their cotyloid cavities widely open 

 behind ; the intermediate furnished with trochantina, sometimes almost 

 obsolete ; the four front tarsi with five, the hind pair with four joints ; 

 the penultimate joint of all sub-bilobed ; claws simple. The abdomen 

 composed of five (rarely of six) segments, all distinct. 



Group PEDILID^E. 



Head disengaged from the prothorax, mobile ; its neck quite visible 

 above. Prothorax always narrower than the elytra, without any trace of 

 separation between the pronotum and flanks. 



Macratria. 



Newman; Lacord. Hist, des Ins. Coleop., Tom. v.,p. 579. 



Mentum transversely quadrate. Tongue hollowed. Maxillary palpi 

 serrate ; two first joints broad, triangular ; third broadly triangular, 

 acute ; fourth cultriform. Mandibles short, cleft at their apex. Labrum 

 transversal, rounded in front. Head short, with a rather narrow neck, 

 nodiform, rounded above, terminating with a short muzzle. Eyes large, 

 subreniform or oval, moderately convex. Antenna about as long as the 

 thorax, slender ; the basal joint stout, sub-cylindrical, joints two to eight 

 obconical, nearly equal, ninth to eleventh distinctly thicker and longer 

 than the preceding ones. Prothorax usually more or less elongate, 

 oblong-oval, or narrowed at its base, which is rounded. Scutellum 

 quadrangular or trapezeiform. Elytra elongate, parallel, or a little 

 attenuate posteriorly. Legs rather long; ihe/emara more or less slender 

 at their base, and incrassated towards the apex; tibia somewhat com- 

 pressed ; anterior tarsi slightly depressed ; the basal joint of the poste- 

 rior very elongate ; the penultimate joint of all the tarsi sub-bilobed. 

 Body elongate, slender, finely pubescent. 



722. M. exiliS, Pascoe; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., February, 1877. 

 M. angusta, fusca, albido-setulosa ; cajrite depresso; collo testaceo; 

 oculis magnis ; antennis testaceis, extus infuscatis ; prothorace oblongo, 

 apice angustissimo ; scutello inviso; elytris seriatim punctatis et setulosis, 

 apice late rotundatis ; pedibus testaceis, femoribus posticis dimidio fus- 

 cescentibus. 



Long., 1 1 lin. 



Tairua (Capt. Broun). 



Macratria is an almost cosmopolitan genus, but is not found in 

 Europe, nor, so far as I know, in Australia. This is the smallest species 

 that has come under my notice. 



723/M. verticaliS, Sharp; Entom. Mon. Mag., June, 1877. 

 Elongatus, angustulus, niger, parcius pallido-pubescens, antennis pal- 



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