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arniata, postice corpus superantia ; tihicB teretes, subarcuata; ; 

 tarsi longiusculi, articulo tertio paruin dilatato. Mima pec- 

 toralis inter coxas intermedias protensa, apice caverudsa. Me- 

 tasternum elongatum. Abdomen normale. 



The form of the femora is eminently distinctive of this genus. 

 I phice it after Cyamoholus, Schon. 



DiATASSA PHALERATA, (PI. IX. fig. 2.) D. ovata, nigra, opaca, 

 squamis fuscis vestita, lineisque supra dense silaceo-squamosis or- 

 nata; capite antice dense subsilaceo-squamoso, inter oculos fovea 

 profunda impresso ; rostro picco, basi oblongo-])unctato ; antennis 

 subferrugineis, funiculo articulis quatuor basalibus fere sequalibus ; 

 prothorace latitudine longitudini scquali, rude squamoso, dorse lineis 

 silaceis, tribus longitudinalibuSj una pone medium transversa, deco- 

 rate ; scutello silaceo-squamoso ; elytris remote seriatim punctatis, 

 puuctis basi majoribus, apicem versus gradatim rainoribus, linea 

 suturali, alteraque submediana, antice angulata, tertiaque postice ad 

 latera silaceis ; corpore infra squamulis parvis sparse irrorato ; pe- 

 dibus dense silaceo-squamosis; elava femorum fusco-lavata. Long. 

 5 1in. 



Hab. Mysol. 



Peiussops. 



(Cryptorhynchinse.) 



Rostrum validiusculum, subarcuatum, basi squamosum; scrobes 

 medianse, laterales, recta). Scapus oculum attingens ; funicu- 

 lus articulis duobus basalibus longiusculis, quinque ultimis 

 moniliformibus ; clava oblongo-ovalis, velutina. Oculi sub- 

 grosse granulati, antice perparum approximantes. Prothorax 

 oonicus, utrinque paulo rotundatus, basi bisinuatus, lobis ocu- 

 laribus distinctis. Scutellum punctiforme. Elytra ovata, con- 

 vexa, humeris rotuudatis. Pedes breviusculi: femora incras- 

 sata, autica obsolete deutata, vel dente parvo instructa ; tibioe 

 couipressee, subarcuatje ; tarsi vix elongati, normales. Mima 

 pectoralis pone coxas anticas termiuata, apice cavernosa. Me- 

 tasternum modice elongatum. Abdomen normale. 



The type of this genus has long been known in collections 

 under the name of Perissops lynx (Jekel), but was first published 

 in the * Novara Voyage,' by Eedtenbacher, who referred it to 

 Enteles {E. ocellatus, Eedbr.). Enteles differs from Perissops in 

 many of the characters given above, notably in its longer slender 

 rostrum, with the pectoral canal open at the apex, and extending 



