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described have the last article of the labial palpi cylindrico-ovate; but as the absence 
of this character alone would not remove them from it, and as it is very possible that in 
any new species which may be found the palpi may be differently formed (seeing that 
there is some variation in its proportions in other species of Brachypterus), I have 
thought it better not to include it among the above characters. There appears to be no 
additional anal appendage in either sex in this subgenus. 
* Thorax subglobose and considerably narrower than the elytra. 
21. BRACHYPTERUS QUADRATUS. (Plate X XXII. fig. 6.) 
Creutz. in Illig. Mag. vi. 337 (1807). Erichs. in Germ. Zeitschr. iv. 230 (1843). Sturm, Deutschl. Faun. 
xv. 19. taf. 290 (1844). Erichs. Naturg. Ins. Deutschl. iii. 130 (1848). 
Niger, opacus, cinereo pubescens, confertissime punctatus; prothorace angustato, postice 
rotundato. Long. 2 lin., lat. $ lin. 
Habitat in Austria et Europa meridionali: rarior. 
Black, opaque, very densely punctate, thickly clothed with grey hairs. Antennz 
convex, fully as long as the thorax, with the last three articles enlarged, but not into a 
rounded club. Thorax narrower than the elytra, rather shorter than broad, in front 
truncate, straight, anterior angles obtuse, rounded at the sides, somewhat narrowed 
behind, the base strongly rounded. Scutellum elongate, rounded at the apex. Elytra 
about a third longer than the thorax, together widely emarginate, the shoulders pro- 
jecting prominently on each side. The fimbriz of the penultimate dorsal segment of the 
abdomen broad and strongly marked. Legs brownish black. 
Austria and the south of Europe. 
22. BRACHYPTERUS CANESCENS. 
Motsch. Bull. Soc. Imp. Mosc. xviii. 54 (1845). 
Affinis B. quadrato, sed duplo major; prothorace subsexangulari, basi truncato, lateribus 
rotundatim angulato; czeteris fere ut in B. quadrato. Long. 2} lin., lat. 1$ lin. 
Habitat in Armenia et Russia meridionali. 
There is little difference between this insect and B. quadratus except in size and in 
the more angular form of the thorax. The sides of the thorax are so much bent in 
the middle as to make it almost hexagonal; its base is truncate and narrow, the pos- 
terior angles obtuse and rounded, the sides obtusely rounded, and the anterior angles 
obtuse and rounded. 
From South and Eastern Europe, extending into Asia. 
** Thorax transverse, scarcely narrower than the elytra. 
23. BRaACHYPTERUS TINCTUS. (Plate XXXII. fig. 8.) 
Strongylus? tinctus, Mann. Bull. Mosc. 1843, p. 255. 
Oblongus, convexus, subopacus, crebre punctatus, cinereo pubescens, niger, elytris 
nigris vel obscure rubro-ferrugineis, cum lateribus, basi et sutura nigris; prothorace 
