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with dense, brush-like soles, but nude along the middle, third joint 

 excavate above but not at all bilobed. 



Ph&ophanus is an allied form. Anagotus has the third tarsal 

 joint bilobed. The species are apterous. 



2147. H. longipes, n.s. Squamosity fine, dense, variegate, 

 mostly pale-brown or testaceous, white scales often form an incom- 

 plete band beyond the middle of the thighs, and sometimes a stripe 

 along their inner face, besides some irregular marks on the thorax 

 and elytra ; the pallid setae seem to be confined to the tibiae and 

 underside, which is black but glossy, above it is opaque. 



Hostrum shining-black at apex, with two broad, oblique, conver- 

 gent grooves just behind the margins of the frontal impression, all 

 this portion deflexed ; the top of the declivity bears two obtuse 

 ridges, the sculpture behind these consists almost wholly of small 

 granular elevations, which, however, are not continued to the eyes ; 

 these have their greatest bulk in the transverse direction. Thorax 

 widest near the front, truncate at base, middle of apex curvate ; 

 its surface uneven, for, besides many small black tubercles, there 

 are a central apical elevation, one lateral at its widest part, and four 

 less conspicuous ones on the disc. Elytra narrowed to width of 

 thorax, the summit of hind slope bears four elevations, two near the 

 suture and one at each side, there are two near the extremity and 

 two near the base ; the dorsum itself is uneven and bears rows of 

 tubercular elevations and intervening depressions, which, however, 

 are obsolete near the suture. 



Underside more or less covered with scales of a redder colour than 

 those above. The palpi porrect, placed as it were at apex of men turn. 



Length (rost. incl.), 8-J- ; breadth, 3 lines. 



Boatman's, near Beef ton. Two specimens, found by Mr. ^, T. 

 Cavell. 



Phoxoteles. 



Nov. gen. 



Differentiated from Phceophanus by the almost entire absence of 

 ocular lobes ; from Anagotus by the structure of the tibiae, which, in 

 Phoxoteles, terminate inwardly in a small spiniform process, perhaps 

 too by the widely-separated eyes and want of distinct ocular lobes, 

 but as Dr. Sharp does not allude to these in his description of 

 Anagotus I am not in a position to judge. 



Though so closely allied, the species representing the two genera, 

 Phaophanus and Phoxoteles, differ considerably in superficial ap- 

 pearance. 



This genus is proposed for the systematic location of No. 1513, 

 which now must stand under the name Phoxoteles graniger. 



Rystheus. 



Nov. gen. 



Body very narrow and elongate, cylindrical, convex, finely and 

 sparsely hispid. Rostrum arched, moderately stout ; in front of 



