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not excepted, slender, narrow, and terminated by small spurs. They 
are usually found further south than the preceding species *. 
A last division of the Pimelizee—Cryprocuy.e, Lat.—is composed 
of species in which the body is relatively shorter or more thick-set, 
the mentum covered by the preesternum, and the antennee are ab- 
ruptly terminated by a club, divided into two parts, one formed by 
the ninth joint and the other by the two following ones, which are 
confounded together. These species appear to be concentrated in 
the southern extremity of Africa f. 
Under the generic appellation of Erodius were formerly united 
certain Pimelariz, closely allied to the preceding ones, but in which 
the body is ovoid, short, arcuated or gibbous above, the thorax short, 
as wide posteriorly as the base of the elytra, and terminated on each 
side by an acute angle; and the preesternum dilated posteriorly in 
the manner ef a lamina or point, with its posterior extremity resting 
on the mesosternum. 
These Erodii now form three subgenera. In 
Eropius, Lat., 
Or Erodius properly so called, the two last joints of the antennze 
are united and form a small globuliform club, the anterior tibize have 
a stout tooth near the middle of their outer side, and another on the 
same side at the extremity, and the mentum is incased (encadré) in- 
feriorly and covers the base of the maxillz. Their body is usually 
convex f. 
Zorunosis, Lat.—Eronius, fab., Olkv. 
Where the antenne are almost filiform or enlarge insensibly towards 
the end, with the tenth joint very distinct from the preceding, some- 
what larger and almost ovoid, and where the anterior tibize as well as 
the following ones have no tooth near the middle of the outer side. 
The mentum is incased (encadré) inferiorly, and covers the base of 
the maxille. The third joint of the antenne is hardly longer than 
the second, and the ninth and tenth are almost turbiniform §. Those 
of the third, or the 
Nycrexia, Lat.—Zoruosis, Germ., 
Are almost similar to the Zophoses, but the third joint of their 
antenne is much longer than the preceding one; the following, as 
weil as the ninth and tenth, is nearly globular. The base of the 
maxille is exposed. Besides this, these Insects are peculiar to South 
America, whilst the Zophoses and Erodii are exclusively confined to 
* The Pimeliz longipes, hispida, morbilosa, &c., of Fabricius ; the Pim. anomala of 
Fischer. 
+ The Pimeliew maculata and minutia, Fab. For the other Pimeliz, see Olivier, 
Scheenherr, and Fischer. 
t+ The Erodii bilineatus, gibbus, levigatus, Oliv., Col., III, No. 63. See Lat., 
Gener. Crust. et Insect., Ii, p. 145, and the Catalogue, &c. of Dejean. 
§ See Lat., Gener. Crust. et Insect., II, p. 146. 
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