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running parallel to the suture, the eleventh sulcate and placed on the 

 lateral border, the others approximating in pairs, and obsolete towards 

 the apex of the elytron ; basilar space slightly raised, bounded by a 

 shallow depression. 



Genus Pheynocepha. (Plate XL fig. Se, side view of head, tf .) 



Carpus subelongatuni, convexum ; antennis robustis, apicem versus attenu- 

 atis, articulo primo incrassato, secundo brevi, obtrigono, tertio modice 

 elongato, subclavato ; oculis parvis, vix prornimdis, ovatis ; labro brevi 

 transverso ; mandibulis apice tridentatis ; mento subquadrato ; liyula 

 apice angidato, obtuso; palpis maxillaribus articido primo parvo, 

 duobus sequentibus subclavatis, inter se pequalibus, ultimo subconico, 

 labialibus articulo ultimo obovato, leniter curvato, apice subacute 

 Thorax transversus. Seutellum trigonatum. Elytra oblonga, anguste 

 marginata, apice rotundata. Pedes robusti, mediocres; coxis anticis 

 non contiguis ; femoribus (praesertim posticis) incrassatis, quatuor 

 anticis paullo compressis ; tarsorum articulo basali duobus sequentibus 

 longitudine fere ajquali, unguiculis basi appendiculatis. Prosternum 

 integrum, retrorsum ad mesosternum productum. 



Mas. Caput crassum, valde exsertum, porrectum, subquadratum, facie 

 paullo dechve ; antennis incrassatis, articulis paullo compressis ; femo- 

 ribus magis incrassatis, tarsorum articido basali dilatato, obovato, apice 

 truncate 



Faun. Caput minus exsertum, deflexum, subtrigonatum. 



Type, Phrynocepha pulchella, Baly. 



The present genus, which belongs to the Anisopodous section of 

 the family, must be placed near Crepidod&ra, — the form of the an- 

 tennas, the peculiar shape of the head in the male, and the irregu- 

 larly punctured elytra separating it from that genus. 



Phrynocepha pulchella. (Plate XL fig. 8.) 



P. subelongata, testacea, nitida ; mandibularum apice, antennis (basi fulva 

 excepta), abdomine scutelloque nigris ; tarsis piceis ; elytris anguste 

 marginatis, crebre tenuiter punctatis, cseruleis. — Long. 4^-4^ lin. 

 Hab. Mexico. 



Subelongate, convex ; head porrect, the eyes being placed at a con- 

 siderable distance from the edge of the thorax, subquadrate, face 

 oblique ; vertex irregularly punctured ; epistome narrow, transverse, 

 bounded above by a slightly curved elevated ridge, from the centre of 

 which a perpendicular raised line runs upwards on the face, passing 

 between the antenna?, and terminating a short distance above them in 

 a slightly elevated, smooth and shining bilobed space; eyes black: 

 thorax more than a third broader than long, sides narrowly margined, 

 nearly straight and parallel behind, narrowed and obliquely rounded 



