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and nearly equal in size, the first article minute, and the third short (Pl. XXXV. fig. 6 f). 
Ligula narrow and oblong, the paraglosse extending beyond it, nearly of the same ` 
breadth, and terminating in a flat brush of hairs like a painter's flat brush. Plate XXXV. 
fig. 6e, which is intended for this, does not give a correct representation of it. There 
is no appendage at the base of the second article of the labial Fig. 92. 
palpi, and the termination of the ligula is as shown in the wood- Fig. 91. Vil 
cut (fig. 91). I only discovered its true nature, since the Plate 1 [i 
was engraved, by finding the paraglosse (A) shifted a little out of 
their place behind the ligula (B), as shown in fig. 92. Labial 
palpi with the second article elongate, and third more slender, 
subcylindrical, and slightly shorter (fig. 91). Mentum emarginate, without a projecting 
tooth in the middle (Pl. XXXV. fig. 6e). Prothorax rather narrower behind than in 
front, margined. Scutellum transverse. Elytra wider than the thorax, somewhat cos- 
tate. Abdomen below with all the segments nearly equal, except the pygidium, which 
is largest; three segments exposed above, the margin of the fourth visible; the fimbrize 
well marked, rather broad, widest in front on the last segment, nearly parallel on the 
other segments.  Prosternum dilated behind the anterior coxe. Metathorax without 
axillary pieces. Legs stout; femora with a channel below to receive the tibiz; tibiae 
dilated, with a channel on the outside of their apex to receive the tarsi, and each side of 
this channel thickly fringed with hairs. Tarsi very much dilated, and clothed below with 
long hairs. $ 
The most visible characters on which this genus is founded are the thorax narrower 
than the elytra, and the abdomen attenuated behind, so as to give it a conical outline. 
A less visible character is the difference in the ligula and maxillæ. I have met with no 
similar ligula in the group; and the maxillæ are so slightly bearded as to appear little 
more than pubescent—a character which, although occurring not unfrequently in the 
other groups of the Nitidulide, is rare among the Carpophilide. 
This genus is out of its place here. It is certainly one of the Brachypeplide, and 
should come before Cilleus and Orthogramma instead of after them. It has the fimbrie, 
the tibiæ, and the elytra of Brachypeplus. But if I had placed it there, I must have 
separated Adocimus from Brachypeplus or else from Cilleus; and as that genus forms 
the passage between these genera, I have had no alternative but to separate this from 
its nearest allies. It breaks off from Brachypeplus at the subgenus Selis. | 
S CaARPOPHILUS. 
Position and Affinities—Bracuyrrrius. | HYPODETUS. CAMPSOPYGA. 
.PRosoPEUS. 
HYPODETUS XANTHURUS. (Plate XXXV. fig. 6.) 
Subfusiformis, subdepressus, nitidus, fere glaber, levissime punctatus; piceo-brunneus, 
abdomine saturatiore, pygidio flavo; elytris subcostatis. Long. 4 lin., lat. 1} lin. 
Habitat in Brasilia ? | 
Somewhat elongate, subfusiform, attenuated behind, somewhat narrowed in front, sub- 
depressed, shining, finely and sparsely punctate, piceo-brunneous. Head punctate, with 
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