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rather slender, subcylindric ; third and following subclavate, scarcely com- 

 pressed. Mouth deflexed : palpi very short: head broad, angulated ante- 

 riorly : thorax oblong, the sides margined, rounded towards the middle, the 

 hinder angles produced into a short prominent spine ; the disc slightly globose 

 anteriorly: elytra elongate, slightly attenuated : body clothed above with long 

 hairs, beneath with a dense pile : legs moderate -.femora and tibiw compressed : 

 tarsi with the three basal joints considerably dilated, the third being pro- 

 duced beneath into a bilobed spongy process ; the fourth joint extremely 

 minute: claws short, each furnished with four elongate horny spines at the 

 base within. 



The pectinated claws of the only species of this genus well 

 distinguish it from the other genera of this family, from which it 

 also differs in having the antennae not compressed, and composed 

 of somewhat cylindric, subclavate joints, the body remarkably 

 pilose, the third joint of the tarsi with an elongate bilobed spongy 

 process, the two basal joints also dilated, and the fourth extremely 

 minute ; but in these last characters it somewhat resembles the fol- 

 lowing genus. 



Sp. 1. hirsutus. Nigro-fuscus, Jlavescenti-cinereo-villosus, etytris elongati s 



striatis. (Long. corp. 5 lin.) 

 N. G. hirsutus. Steph. Catal. 1-26. No. 1283.— El. pilosus. Fabricius, Eleut. ii. 



241.?— N. G. cylindrus. Steph. Catal. 126. No. 1278? 



Above fuscous-black, densely clothed with rather long flavescent-ash coloured 

 hairs, especially on the head and thorax ; the latter rather elongate, the ante- 

 rior margin slightly fulvescent, with the angles deflexed, the disc convex an- 

 teriorly, with the posterior angles somewhat elongate and acute ; the disc 

 thickly punctulated, and with a dorsal channel behind : elytra elongate, 

 densely clothed with short down as on the head, punctate-striate, the punc- 

 tures minute : legs slightly piceous ; body beneath black, densely covered 

 with a short silvery down ; antennae testaceous. 



Not found near London ; my specimen, which is greatly injured, 

 I obtained from Bristol: and in the collection at the British 

 Museum, I believe, there are others from the same quarter. 



Genus CCXXXI. — Anathrotus, Dilkvyn. 



Antenna* rather long, compressed, deeply serrated, the basal joint generally 

 robust, elongate, curved; the second short, subglobose, or somewhat elon- 

 gate, subclavate ; the third and following elongate obconic ; the terminal one 

 longest and attenuated at the apex. Palpi short, slender : head broad, angu- 

 lated anteriorly : thorax elongate, narrowed in front, the hinder angles acute. 



