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basal ventral segment is strongly carinate at the base. I am 

 acquainted with only a single female ; it has the last ventral plate 

 angular in the middle, like many Lathrobia. 



Group-OXYTELID^E. 



Coprostygnus. 



Nov. gen. 

 (Sharp ; Trans. Boy. Dub. Soc., 1886, p. 380.) 



Generis Coprophili facie et affinitate. Glypeus sat magnus, sutura 

 profunda, arcuata delimitatus ; mentum in medio obtuse acuminatum, 

 fere rotundatum ; palpi breves, maxillarium articulo penultimo 

 brevissimo, quam ultimo triple breviore. Tarsi quinque articulati, 

 articulis quatuor basalibus per - brevibus ; tibia anteriores extus 

 versus apicem parce breviterque spinulosse. 



The insect for which this genus is established is closely allied to 

 the European Coprophilus, but the numerous differences in some 

 points of detail, which are mentioned above, render it a proper 

 course, I think, to separate it. The species has the slender build of 

 the neighbouring genus Acrognathus. 



1838. C. SCUlptipeimis, n.s. (Sharp; Trans. Eoy.D ub. Soc., 

 1886, p. 380.) Elongatus, niger, nitidus, antennis pedibusque rufo- 

 piceis ; prothorace fortiter punctate, insequali ; elytris lineis elevatis 

 exaratis. 



Long., 6-6^mm. 



Antenna stout, very loosely articulated, penultimate joint 

 scarcely so long as broad. Head narrower than the thorax, with 

 prominent eyes, coarsely and closely sculptured, the clypeus with 

 only a few punctures. Thorax much narrower than the elytra, nearly 

 as long as broad ; front and hind margins straight ; sides curved', 

 slightly sinuate behind ; hind angles rectangular, sharply marked ; 

 the surface is closely, deeply, and coarsely punctate, has a large 

 impression on each side, two indistinct impressions at the base, and 

 another on the middle. The elytra are much longer than the thorax, 

 each traversed by about eight raised lines, those near the suture 

 coarser than those external ; the intervals between the lines sculp- 

 tured in a rather indefinite, elongate manner. The male has the 

 fourth and fifth joints of the antennae dilated ; an elevated tubercle 

 at the sutural and apical angles of the wing-cases, a depression on 

 each side of the three basal dorsal segments, and a sharply-elevated 

 subhamate carina on the penultimate segment. 



Greymouth. Helms ; one pair. 



Group-ST APH YLINID^l , 



Quedius. 



1839. Q. fuscatus, -s. Elongate, moderately shining, varie- 

 gate ; head and thorax fusco-niger, but the sides of the latter and a 



