622. 

 OMOPHLUS ARMERI.E. 



Order Coleoptera. Fam. Cistelidae. 



Type of the Genus Cistela picipes Fab. 

 Omophlus Meg,, Dej., Sol. — Cistela Fab. 



Antenme inserted close before the eyes, half the length of the 

 insect, slightly pubescent, 11 -jointed, basal joint ovate, 2nd 

 the smallest, somewhat cup-shaped, 3rd long, clavate, the 

 following shorter, slightly increasing in breadth from being com- 

 pressed, terminal joint as long as the third, subulate at the 

 apex (6 portions of the base and apex). 

 Labrum pocket-shaped, ciliated, emarginate in front (1). 

 Mandibles rather slender, curved, acute, with an obtuse tooth 

 on the inside at the middle, and a membranous margin ciliated 

 above (2). 



Maxilla small, terminated by 2 elongated lobes, the internal 

 one linear, a little curved, dilated at the back near the apex and 

 ciliated, the outer one much larger, dilated towards the apex and 

 clothed with hairs. Palpi much longer than the labial, clavate 

 and 4-jointed, basal joint small, 2nd and 3rd long, narrowed 

 at the base, 4th a little longer, broader, and somewhat hatchet- 

 shaped (3). 



Mentum transverse-ovate. Labium forming 2 large divaricating 



ciliated lobes. Palpi remote, arising from scapes at the anterior 



angles of the mentum, triarticulate, basal joint the slenderest, 



2nd obtrigonate, 3rd large and somewhat hatchet- shaped (4). 



Slightly depressed. Head subovate, being narrowed and elongated 



anteriorly : eyes small, lateral, remote. Thorax transverse, sides 



a little convex, the angles rounded : scutel small, semiovate. Elytra 



long, elliptical, rounded at the apex • wings ample. Legs of equal 



length: tibiae compressed, narrowed at the base, spiny outside, 



spurred at the apex: tarsi 5, 5- and A-jointed, basal joint a Utile 



elongated in the anterior, 3 following turbinate ; basal joint the 



longest in the hinder pair : claws rather long and pectinated beneath 



(5 afore, f a hind tarsus). 



Armeei^ Curt. — Guide, Gen. 263''. 1. 



Black, shining, thickly and minutely punctured, clothed with 

 short erect hairs ; trophi dull ferruginous ; antennae brown, the 

 apex black ; head and thorax with hoary hairs, the surface un- 

 even, the former with a small fovea on the crown, the latter 

 with a shallow channel down the centre, vanishing before, and 

 terminating in a fovea behind ; elytra testaceous, clothed with 

 very short pubescence, with 8 or 9 shallow lines formed of 

 punctures ; tibiae more or less castaneous at the apex ; tarsi 

 pale chestnut. 



In the Cabinets of Mr. Dale and the Author. 



