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small ; anterior coxae transverse, scarcely approximate ; tibiae bicalca- 

 rate ; tarsi five-jointed, slender, short, hairy beneath. 



If rightly referred to the Cucujidae, the position of this genus will 

 be near Silvanus, which it approaches in habit and in its clavate 

 antennae. 



Ehyssopera areolata. (PI. VII. fig. 4.) 



R. fusca, sparse flavo-pubescens ; prothoracis basi latiuscula ; elytris 

 areblatis. 



Hab. Tasmania. 



Opake umber-brown, with a sparse yellowish or almost golden pubes- 

 cence, especially on the head and prothorax, the latter about as broad 

 as long, rounded at the side, produced into a short acute angle ante- 

 riorly and slightly contracted behind, with four tubercles on its disc ; 

 scutellum transverse ; elytra with their external margins serrated, each 

 with three rows of coarsely punctured hexagonal nearly equal cells, the 

 walls of which are formed by narrow raised lines j labrum, palpi, and 

 legs ferruginous. Length 4 lines. 



Ehyssopera illota. (PI. VII. fig. 4, trophi only.) 



R. fusca, sparse griseo-pubescens ; prothorace longiore, basi angustata ; 

 elytris subareolatis. 



Hab. Australia (Melbourne). 



Like the last, but the prothorax is longer and much narrower poste- 

 riorly, the lines bounding the areolae and punctures less marked, and 

 the pubescence of a greyer hue. 



Glceania [Trogositidae]. 



Head small, rounded and dilated below the eyes, emarginate in front. 

 The labium entire. Antennae short, eleven-jointed, the last three form- 

 ing a subunilateral, compressed club. Eyes round, prominent. Mandi- 

 bles entire at the apex, toothed in the middle. Palpi robust, with the 

 terminal joint subcylindrical ; maxillary lobes finely toothed, the inner 

 narrow. Labium quadrate, slightly fringed. Mentum large, quadrate. 

 Prothorax subquadrate, narrower anteriorly, broadly sulcated at the 

 side, and slightly margined. Elytra scarcely broader than the pro- 

 thorax, subdepressed, the sides nearly parallel. All the coxae distant ; 

 femora broad, compressed ; tibiae dilated below, terminating in a series 

 of small teeth; tarsi slender, slightly ciliated beneath, the basal joint 

 minute, the second as long or longer than the third and fourth together ; 

 claws toothed at the base. Prostemum rounded behind ; mesostemum 



The Trogositidae do not appear to have any very definite characters, 

 if we except the minuteness of the first tarsal joint, and include 

 genera varying very much in their form. Of the four subfamilies 



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