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tured, very short, the sides nearly parallel, but a little rounded 

 anteriorly, anterior angles slightly produced ; scutellum brown, 

 curvilinearly triangular ; elytra a little broader than the pro- 

 thorax, parallel at the sides, irregularly covered with small 

 approximate punctures ; body beneath and legs glossy chest- 

 nut-brown, with minute scattered punctures ; antennas not 

 reaching to the base of the prothorax, and, with the tarsi, dull 

 glossy ferruginous. Length 5 lines. 



Baeytipha. 



Subfamily Cyphaleinm. 



Antennce breviusculse, art. 8°, 9°, 10° transversis. 

 Epipleurce elytrorum postice vix angustiores. 

 Tarsi subtus apice breviter pilosi. 



Head deeply inserted in the prothorax, convex in front ; 

 clypeus strongly emarginate, its groove arched. Eyes narrow, 

 transverse, constricted in the middle, distant above. Antenna? 

 rather short, third joint twice as long as the second, fourth to 

 seventh gradually shorter, eighth, ninth, and tenth transverse, 

 the last rounded. Mentum broadly subcordiform, its face 

 concave ; lower lip rounded anteriorly. Maxilla? short, the 

 inner lobe strongly hooked. Maxillary palpi securiform, labial 

 subobconic. Prothorax transverse, apex broadly emarginate, 

 anterior angles not produced. Elytra slightly broader than 

 the prothorax at the base, their sides subparallel ; epipleura?, 

 except at the base, nearly equal in width throughout. Legs 

 rather short ; tibia? gradually broader below ; tarsi shortly 

 pilose at the apex, basal joint of the posterior not longer than 

 the two next together. Metasternum rather short; inter- 

 femoral process narrowly triangular. 



The peculiar vestiture of the tarsi (composed of short stiff 

 hairs confined to the apices of the joints) is exceptional, and 

 at once differentiates this genus. Dr. Howitt tells me that the 

 species described below is gregarious in old deserted swallows' 

 nests in hollow and decaying trees. 



Barytipha socialls. PI. XII. fig. 5. 



B. fusca (aliquando brunnea), subnitida ; elytris fere opacis, sub- 

 tiliter snbstriato-punctatis. 



Hah. Victoria. 



Dark brown, sometimes reddish brown ; head and prothorax 

 subnitid, very minutely punctured, the latter regularly but not 

 very convex above ; scutellum rather broadly triangular ; 

 elytra somewhat opaque, lightly striate-punctate, the punctures 



