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408 MR. A: MURRAY'S MONOGRAPH OF THE FAMILY OF NITIDULARLE. 
united, probably as in Trimenus (Pl. XXXVI. fig. 7 e). Mentum narrowly and straightly 
emarginate, without any tooth in the middle. "Thorax flat, transverse, and margined. 
Scutellum rather large, rounded. Elytra broad, flat, parallel, margined ; each elytron 
rounded at the apex. Abdomen above with only the pygidium and a small portion of 
the penultimate segment visible; below with all the segments nearly equal, except the 
first; pygidium short, broad, and truncate, not pointed. Legs stout; all the — 
straight; tarsi rather large. 
Position and Affinities.—Trimenvs. SOMAPHORUS. EPUREA. 
SOMAPHORUS FERRUGINEUS. (Plate XXXVI. fig. 7.) 
Latus, oblongus, planus, depressus, parallelus, crebre punctatus, dense testaceo pubes- 
cens, lete ferrugineo-testaceus, lateribus ciliatis, pygidio barbato. Long. 2j lin., 
lat. 14 lin. | | 
Habitat in insulis Philippinis 2 
Oblong, broad, flat, depressed, parallel, thickly punctate, clothed with long testaceous 
pubescence, bright ferrugineo-testaceous. Labrum with a marginal line. Head finely 
punctate. Thorax transverse, twice as broad as long, narrower in front than behind; 
thickly and strongly punctate, with the disk slightly raised and the sides flat on each 
side, the flattened portion widest behind, the sides somewhat parallel at the base and 
rounded in front, widely margined, and ciliated with long hairs; apex widely and deeply 
emarginate; anterior angles obtusely rounded; posterior angles acute angles, not sharp 
at the point; base deeply bisinuate. Scutellum punctate. Elytra long, of the breadth of 
the base of the thorax, twice and a half the length of the thorax, parallel from the base. 
almost to the apex, sides margined, apex of each elytron regularly and equally rounded ; 
rauch punctate and with long pubescence; exterior apical angles rounded, sutural apical 
angles obtuse. Apex of abdomen with long tufts of hairs on each side. Tibiæ slightly 
serrated, and fringed with hairs. 
. From the Philippine Islands? Communicated to me ie Professor Westwood from the 
Oxford Museum. 
Genus ECcNOM.EUS. 
Erichs. in Germ. Zeitschr. iv. 264 (1843). 
Lacord. Hist. des Ins. Coléopt. ii. 299 (1854). 
Labrum emarginatum. Elytra apice rotundata, abdominis segmenta tria prima obtegentia. Abdomen 
segmentis duobus primis brevissimis, reliquis mediocribus ;  fimbriis sat. latis. Pedes compressi; 
tarsis simplicibus. 
. Body oblong-oval, flat or concave above. Head elongate, without antennal grooves- 
Epistome dilated before the eyes. Antennæ inserted under the sides of the epistome, 
short and slender; first article cylindrical, longer and thicker than the rest; second and 
third of the same form, more slender, rather long, and subequal; fourth to eighth short ; 
ninth.to eleventh forming a small elongated club. Labrum large, feebly emarginate. 
Mandibles much arched, bordered on the outer side, terminating in a long and sharp 
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