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furnished with paraglossoe, as in that genus. It is remarkable that 

 the basal joint, which in Apeistus is very indistinct, and was con- 

 sidered to be a mere knob (and the insect, therefore, trimerous) by 

 Erichson, should be also in Hyberis so indented, that when viewed 

 sideways it seems composed (at least in the intermediate tarsus) of 

 two distinct joints ; but the absence of any division beneath shows 

 that it is not really so. 



Hyberis araneiformis. (PI. VII. fig. 1.) 

 H. fuscus, tuberculiferus, fulvo-setosus ; antennis capite prothoraceque 



longioribus. 

 Hah. Borneo. 



Broadly ovate, dark brown, opake, covered with small tubercles 

 and short stiff fulvous hairs ; head scarcely more than half the breadth 

 of the prothorax, a thin patch of yellowish hairs in front of each eye ; 

 prothorax slightly convex, much broader than long, with two tufts of 

 yellowish setose hairs on the disc, and six stout teeth on each side ; 

 scutellum very indistinct ; elytra broad, convex, rounded at the side, 

 the edges serrated, a small tuft of black hairs on each at the base, and 

 a larger one common to both elytra behind and on the highest part of 

 their convexity ; antenna? about one-third the length of the whole 

 insect, all the joints, except the last, furnished with three stiff seta? 

 arising in the middle of each, two anterior and one posterior; palpi 

 ferruginous ; legs rough, with short thick hairs, tarsi ferruginous ; eyes 

 black; body beneath somewhat pitchy, coarsely punctured. Length 

 2| lines. 



Pharax [Colydiidae]. 



Head short, transverse, rather widely dilated below the eyes, and deeply 

 inserted in the prothorax. Antenna? short, eleven-jointed, the two 

 basal incrassated, and nearly concealed above, the third longest, the 

 rest gradually diminishing in length and becoming transverse, the last 

 two forming a compact ovate club. Eyes small, round. Mentum 

 rounded at the sides and in front. Terminal joint of the maxillary 

 palpi triangular. Prothorax transverse, largely dilated and rounded 

 at the sides, narrowed posteriorly, the disc very convex and irregular. 

 Elytra connate, much broader than the prothorax at the base, short 

 and irregular. Legs moderate ; all the coxa? distant ; femora robust ; 

 tibia? fusiform, bordered externally with scale-like hairs ; tarsi short, 

 the basal joint longer than the second or third. Abdominal segments 

 nearly equal. 



This genus, in habit like Uhnotus, is allied to the last (Hyberis), 

 from which the eleven-jointed antenna? and Particulate club will at 

 once distinguish it. The description of the mentum and palpi must be 

 received with some hesitation, as they were examined in situ. The 

 two specimens now before me are among those almost inexhaustible 



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