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rufous ; the legs being totally of that colour, without black tarsi, 

 and the punctations on the elytra being more obsolete. 



Genus IX. — Tarus, Clairville. 



Palpi various ; labium coriaceous in the middle^ rounded at the tip : labial palpi 

 with the terminal joint large, securiform : external maxillary palpi filiform : 

 mentum lobated, with a simple notch in the middle: labrum subquadrate 

 emarginate : tarsi with their joints nearly cylindric, entire; the anterior very 

 shghtly dilated in the males. Head oval, a little produced behind : thorax- 

 obcordate-truncate : hody oblong, depressed : claws denticulated below : wings 

 moderate: aw^e/zw^ filiform. 



Latreille and Clairville proposed this genus about the same 

 period ; the name applied by the former has been usually adopted,, 

 and I have unintentionally followed the stream by using it in page 

 12, contrary to the maxims which are laid down for the proper 

 application of generic names, — the term Cymindis having been 

 anciently used to designate a bird of the hawk kind, to which it 

 has recently been restored by ornithalogical writers. 



The Tari are all rare in this country : they are found beneath 

 stones, usually in damp places near the coast : they are much elon- 

 gated and very flat, and are generally of sombre brownish hues, 

 and are with difficulty discriminated from each other, owing to 

 their great similarity in colouring and markings. 



Sp. 1. angularis. Piceo-niger,punctatuSi oi-e, antennis, thorace pedi- 

 husque Jbrrugineus, eljjtris macula humerali margineque Jlavo- 

 testaceis. (Long. c. 3| — 4 lin.) 



Cy. angularis. Gyllenhal. — Ta. angularis. Steph. Catal. No. 33. 



Head pitchy-black, slightly punctate, the mouth and palpi ferruginous : thorax 

 ferruginous, anteriorly broad, truncate, the sides rounded, base slightly 

 rounded, with the angles minute and prominent ; the disc convex, slightly 

 punctate, and a little wrinkled transversely, the edge very thickly and deeply 

 punctate; an obsolete longitudinal line down the centre with two obscure 

 rugose foveolae at the base : scuteUum ferruginous ; punctate : elytra oblong, 

 much depressed, very shining, with strongly impressed punctate striae, the 

 intervals very flat and thickly and rather deeply punctate, with about three 

 strong impressions near the sutural edge of the third stria ; they are of a 

 pitchy-black, with a spot at the basal angle, and the external margin testa- 

 ceous-yellow ; the spot at the shoulder united to the marginal border : the 

 body beneath is pitchy-black, the breast being rather palest : the legs and 

 antennee are ferruginous, the latter pubescent at the tip. 



