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nated above by three teeth or points. The palpi are very 

 short. 



Notwithstanding the number of articulations in the tarsi, 

 this genus appears to approach cucujus, and even some of the 

 brenta with short proboscis, in the two sexes. The habits are 

 the same as those of the Xylophagi. Rhysodes exaratus, 

 Dalm. Analect. Entom. p. 93. M. Leon Dufour has just 

 discovered this species in the Pyrenees. 



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