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violet. The male differs in having longer antennae and the 

 posterior femora toothed in the middle. 



Egestria. 



(Pedilidce.) 



Caput trigonatum, eollo modice angusto ; clypeus antice angustior, trun- 

 catus, sutura clypeali obsoleta ; labrum breve, apice rotundatum ; 

 jugulum antice pedunculatum. Palpi maxillares articulo ultimo 

 cultriformi. Oculi fere integri. Antenn(B breviusculse, fiUformes, 

 articulo primo modice incrassato, cseteris ad decimum fere sub- 

 sequalibus, ultimo in mare duobus vel tribus praecedentibus con- 

 junctira longiore, in foemina paulo elongate. ProiJiorax oblongus, 

 apice tubulatus et transversim sulcatus. Elytra elongata. Femora 

 vix incrassata ; tibice-xec,i2&, bicalcaratae ; tarsi lineares, articulo 

 penultimo parvo, bilobo. Coxce anticae cylindricae, exsertse ; ace- 

 tahula antiea aperta. Processus intercoxalis angustus, triangu- 

 laris. 



It would, I think, be desirable to unite, as J. du Val has 

 done, the ^'Pediltdes vraies'''' of Lacordaire to the Anthicidae, 

 the only point differentiating the two being the complete con- 

 tiguity, or nearly so, of the posterior coxse in the former, a 

 variable character among the Heteromera, and subject to ex- 

 ceptions here. In the present genus the intercoxal process 

 lies below the line of the coxse, while in Diacalla, to which it 

 is allied, this process distinctly separates them, its apex being 

 received into a notch of the metasternum. Diacalla ( Journ. of 

 Ent. ii. p. 46) was originally referred by me to the Lagriidge ; 

 but on a closer re-examination I find that the anterior cotyloid 

 cavities are open- behind, whilst in Ictistygna {I. c. ii. p. 491), 

 apparently very closely allied to it, they are closed in. This 

 character is supposed to be peculiar to the Lagriidse and 

 Tenebrionidge amongst all the families of Heteromera ; but in 

 Ictistygna it must be considered exceptional, as it would not 

 do to place it and Diacalla in two different families. Besides 

 the two species here described, I have five others connected 

 with the genera mentioned above, but not in sufficiently good 

 order for description. 



Egestria tceniata. PI. XIV. fig. 9 ( ? ) . 



E. nigro-fusca, pilis griseis modice induta, elytris basi silaceis, sin- 

 gulis vitta fiavescenti ab humero usque ad apicem ornatis ; capite 

 transverse, crebre punctato ; clypeo late triangular!, apice rotun- 

 dato ; labro brevi ; antennis testaceo-ferrugineis, versus apicem 

 nigricantibus ; prothorace pone medium paulo incurvato, oculato- 

 punctato ; scutello elongato-triangulari ; elytris S sensim angus- 

 tatis, 5 fere parallelis, sat confertim punctatis ; tibiis, apice 



