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DESCKIPTION OF SPECIES. 



1. Tbibe Oxttelini. 



key to ge]s^eea. 



Section Oxyteli. 



a. Legs ^^ itliout spines, celiated or pubescent ; tarsus having 



three joints. Trogophlceus. 



b. Legs spiny, or at least the anterior ones ; tarsus three- 



jointed ; the front legs with only one row of spines ; 

 antennse very little, or not at all, curving ; the body 

 depressed. Oxytelus. 



Trogophloeus simplex, Mots., Bull. Mosc, 1857, IV., 505 ; Fauvel, 



II., 26. 



Corslet very transverse, icith a transverse impression at the 

 base, and two very obsolete little Jioles on the disc, sometimes ab- 

 sent ; size very small. 



Subelongate, slightly depressed, either black or else blackish 

 or pitch-brown, rather nitid, with minute grey pubescence, 

 either the first joint of the antennae only or the whole of the 

 base as well as the feet more or less red ; antennae short, 

 slender, the 9-10 joints surpassing the preceding ones in length 

 and breadth ; the eyes large, extending to the bottom of the 

 head ; the head on each side in a longitudinal line opaque and 

 alutaceous, as also the thorax ; the latter very short, trans- 

 versely oval, the sides very much rounded — especially pos- 

 teriorly, anteriorly a little less rounded, the base having an 

 obsolete, somewhat broad and sinuous impression, the back 

 very rarely being obsoletely bifoveolate ; the elytra large, 

 quadrate, frequently very finely punctured, the abdomen almost 

 more finely so. Length — If mill. 



Localities — Adelaide, East Indies, and Ceylon. 



KEY TO SPECIES OF OXYTELUS. 



A. Elytra very short, strongly transverse. Body brown or 



pitch-bronze ; elytra extremely short, of a dull testa- 

 ceous tint. impennis. 



B. Elytra longer than they are broad, parallel or slightly 



oblique. 



a. Elytra very little oblique ; body bronzy ; breast not 



spotted. subceneus. 



b. Elytra square, or a little longer than they are broad ; 



eyes ordinary size or small, not extending to base 

 of head. 

 I. Head and breast reddish ; abdomen pitchy red ; 



elytra a dark slate. semirufiis. 



II. Breast reddish, elytra testaceous and without 

 spots. sparsus. 



