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TELEPnAE. • 



(Zygopinse.) 



Rostrum modicc robustum, capite fere triple longius, basi hand 

 iucrassatuni, subnudum ; scrohes subapicales, postice iufra ros- 

 trum sitae. Oculi perampli, ovati, infra acuminati, supra con- 

 tigui, AntenncB mediocres, subtermiuales ; scapo clavato, ocu- 

 lum hand attingente ; funiculo 7-articulato, art. prime crasso, 

 secundo longiore, caeteris sensim brevioribus at crassioribus ; 

 clava magna, ovata. Frothorax transversixs, antice angustatus, 

 utrinque calloso-angulatis, basi bisinuatus, lobis ocularibus 

 nullis. Sciitellum distinctum, punctiforme. Elytra basi pro- 

 tliorace vix latiora, bumeris obtusis, lateribus apicem versus 

 rotundata. Fygidiicm ob tectum. Pedes antici majores ; fe- 

 mora incrassata, dente magno instructa ; tibicB anticso fortiter 

 arcuatoe, omnes unco gracili terminatae ; tarsi mediocres, art. 

 tertio bilobo ; unguiculi liberi. Propectus inter coxas paulo 

 excavatum. Ifesosternmn latum, integrum. Epimera meso- 

 thoracis asccndentes. 3fetasiernum modice olongatum. Epi- 

 sterna metatboracis postice latiora. Processus interfemoralis 

 vix latus, paulo triangularis. Abdomen segmentis lateraliter 

 iiugulatis, secundo duobus scquentibus breviore ; sutura prima 

 arcLiata. Corpus breviter ovatum. 



This genus, with many others undescribed, which we owe to 

 Mr. Wallace's researches, offers exceptions to the characters laid 

 down by M. Lacordaire, and will render a revision of the Old- 

 world ZygopincB necessary. In its metathoracic episterua, which 

 are very broad behind, widely separating its posterior coxae 

 from the elytra, it agrees with the Mecopus group, but differs in 

 its funicle of seven joints and in its ascending mesothoracic epi- 

 mera, in all of which characters it conforms to the New-world 

 Zygopince, some species of which, however, do not always possess 

 the last character. But the diagnosis of the genus cannot be well 

 determined until its allies are examined. 



Telephak laticollis. (PI. XIX. fig. 9.) S. nigra, pilis albidis sparse 

 vestita; rostro fusco, nitido, apice ferrugineo, subtiliter punctato ; 

 antennis testaceis, extus clavaque ferrugineis; prothorace duplo la- 

 tiore qiiam longiore, apice paulo tubulato, supra confertim punctato ; 

 elytris sulcato-punctatis, basi et pone medium pilis numerosis lou- 

 gioribus sitis, fascias duas sat indeterminatas formantibus ; infra 



