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their length ; three joints of the anterior tarsi slightly dilated, fringed 

 beneath with long hairs and furnished with a double row of squamge. 

 This genus belongs to the Pericalince in the length of the labrum 

 and the length and width of the paraglossse, attached to the ligula as 

 far as its anterior angles, and in the simplicity of the 4th tarsal joint. 

 It is closely allied to Stenognathus, a genus hitherto considered as 

 undoubtedly an Anchomenus form, and which also has connate para- 

 glossse, broader and longer than the ligula ; but in Stenognathus the 

 tarsal claws are quite simple. The two genera bridge over completely 

 the interval which separates the two sub-families. 



Phl(eotheeates nigkopiceus, n. sp. Oblongus, postice latior, sub- 

 depressus ; piceo-niger, nitidus, corpore subtus cum palpis pedibusque 

 pallidioribus ; elytris prqfunde striatis. 



Long. 9 millim. Lat. elytr. 4^ millim. £ $ • 



Black or piceoua, with the lateral margins of the thorax and elytra reddish- 

 piceous ; the labrum, palpi and antennas also dull reddish, with the 3rd and 4th 

 joints of the latter darker ; the legs are reddish, with apex of femora and tibias 

 sometimes black ; the whole median portion of the under-surface reddish. The 

 forehead has two large distinct punctiires on each side near the eye placed trans- 

 versely ; the thorax is finely strigose, and the elytra have the usual three large 

 punctures on the 3rd interstice. 



Pound coursing amongst Boleti on dead tree-trunks, in company 

 with Stenognathus and Goptodera, but much rarer ; Ega and the Tapajos. 



Stkontmical Notes. 



Goptodera antipodum, Bates, Ent. M. Mag., 1867, p. 78, is a Philophlceus. 



Goptodera guttata, Chaud. (Agonocheila id., Chaud.), Von Harold and 

 Gemminger's Cat., is not a Goptodera, but most probably not 

 distinct from Philophloeus. 



Goptodera viridis, Sober, has no resemblance to Goptodera ; it is regis- 

 tered twice in V. Harold & Gemminger's Cat., under Dromius 

 and Goptodera ; it belongs to the genus Lobius, Motschulsky. 



Stenoglossa corticalis, Chaud., Y. Harold & Gemminger's Cat., is 

 nowhere described, and should be erased. 



Thyreopterus lutosus, Newm., V. Harold & Gemminger's Cat., is a 

 Philophloeus, and occurs at Melbourne and Adelaide. 



40, Bartholomew Eoad, Kentish Town, N.W., 

 12th July, 1869 



