272 SUPPLEMENT ON THE CARNIVOROUS FAMILY 



species from Brazil, under the name of Pleur acanthus. 

 The characters are, the labrum crescent-shape, a small tooth 

 in the front and slightly dentated on each side ; the man- 

 dibles moderate, not notched; maxillary palpi long, the 

 last joint sub-securiform ; the mentum large, deeply emar- 

 ginated, with a rather large central simple tooth ; the labium 

 oblong, rather produced in the centre in front ; labial palpi 

 short, filiform ; the antennae short, hirsute, slightly enlarging 

 toward the tip ; the tarsi rather dilated ; thorax transverse 

 cordate, with the hinder angles acute. 



The species we name sulcipennis, is black, with the head 

 and thorax red, punctured ; the elytra deeply sulcate, with 

 a greyish pubescent ; length nine lines. In the collection 

 of J. G. Children, Esq. 



To the delicately formed genus of Cordistes, we have 

 pleasure in adding a new species, C. cinctus. Pale testacous 

 yellow, with a broad black fascia crossing the elytra, and 

 extending from the centre nearly to the tip ; this fascia is 

 margined with pale cream-colour ; length six lines ; and 

 inhabits Brazil. From the cabinet of Mr. Children. 



M. Eschseholtz has separated the three following genera 

 from that of lebia of Latreille, namely : — Lexocrepis ; the 

 type of which the Lampryas ruficeps of Mr. Macleay, and 

 characterized by its simple claws ; filiform palpi, with the tip 

 sub-truncated; the penultimous joints of the tarsi, produced 

 on one side, and the elytra sinuate acuminated at the tip. 

 The type is an inhabitant of Java, and is four lines in 

 length. It is red, elytra cyaneous, the eyes black. Lia, the 

 type which is the lebia dorsalis of Dejean, claws serrated, 

 palpi filiform, subacute, tarsi, with the penultimous joint 

 bipartite; elytra broad, obliquely truncated; thorax produced 

 in the middle, behind. The next genus is Physodera, which 

 has the labial palpi compressed, dilate, truncate; the thorax 

 with the middle base produced ; the elytra broad, truncate. 



