1066 COLEOPTEEA 



bead-like ; ninth and tenth transverse ; eleventh large, obtusely 

 pointed. Thorax broader, more evidently contracted behind, basal 

 impressions apparently quite transversal. Elytra oviform, widest 

 just before the middle, quite unimpressed. Legs stouter ; tibiae not 

 bent, the four front ones, on the inside, towards the extremity, with 

 some elongate spine-like setae, the middle pair with more yellow 

 pubescence near the end ; tarsi thicker. 



Length, If lines ; breadth, \ line. 



Moeraki. One example, found by Mr. Sandager. 



Group SILPHID^S . 



Inocatops. 



Nov. gen, 



Body convex, oviform, compact, scutellar region considerably de- 

 pressed ; pilose. 



Head immersed up to the eyes ; these latter small, not at all 

 prominent. Maxillary palpi elongate ; their terminal joint longer 

 than the penultimate, elongate-oval, subacuminate ; second elongate 

 and rather slender. Antennae 11-articulate, gradually but not very 

 much incrassated, eighth joint smaller than the contiguous ones. 

 Cox< small, the anterior but little extended, nearly contiguous, the 

 margin in front of them raised and broadly curvate, the prosternum 

 sloping towards its flanks ; the middle pair separated by a keel of 

 the short mesosternum ; the posterior parted by a narrow process 

 only, trochanters small and accurately adapted to the femora, 

 metasternum not elongate. Abdomen with five segments, the basal 

 with a flat triangular projection attaining the base of the third, the 

 sutures deep. Epipleurcc broad at the base, but diminished till quite 

 linear at the extremity. Legs stout, tibiae medially dilated and 

 obliquely narrowed towards the apex, apparently unarmed, pilose 

 but not spinulose externally ; tarsi five -jointed, the anterior of the 

 male dilated, the basal joint much enlarged and suboblong, that of 

 the posterior elongated, claws appendiculate at base. 



I cannot point out a nearer ally than Camiarus convexus, but in 

 it, besides many other disparities, the base of the elytra is emar- 

 ginated so as to receive the thorax. 



No. 273 belongs to this genus, so that it will become known as 

 Inocatops concinmis. It is from a male of that species that the 

 above diagnosis has been derived. 



1907. I. compactus, n.s. Oviform, robust, convex, shining, 

 covered with longish yellow hairs ; dark-red, legs and antennae in- 

 fuscate-red, tarsi testaceous ; minutely, obsoletely, and remotely 

 punctured. 



Head small. Antenna hirsute ; basal joint stout but elongated ; 

 joints 2-6 decrease in length ; seventh rather larger than sixth ; 

 eighth transverse, nearly as broad as, but much shorter than, the 

 preceding one ; ninth and tenth nearly equal, rather broader than 

 long ; eleventh somewhat larger than tenth. Thorax about as long 



