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hence I have described it, despite the fact that there are but 

 two females under examination. Except for its much greater 

 width, it is much like the male of the preceding species, which 

 is also shagreened and with an elongate clypeus, but the eyes 

 are more conspicuously notched, the punctures on the head are' 

 considerably larger, and are not continued on to the clypeus. 

 From certain directions each shoulder appears like a large, 

 obtuse, impunctate tubercle. 



EucoLASPis, n. g. 



Eyes lateral, prominent, almost entire, facets of moderate 

 size. Clypeus widely transverse, not distinctly separated from 

 head. Labrum very short. Antennae rather long and thin. 

 Prothorax widely transverse, sides evenly rounded in middle. 

 Scutellum small. Elytra decidedly wider than prothorax.. 

 Frost ernum with medisternum rather narrow ; episterna very 

 short, front margin of each oblique. Metasternum about as 

 long as following segment. Leys of moderate length and not 

 very stout ; femora edentate, or very feebly dentate ; tibiae 

 feebly dilated to apex, not longitudinally canaliculate, and 

 not notched near outer apex ; claws each with a large basal" 

 appendix. 



The genus is close to Clejjtor, but differs in the elytra 

 being considerably wider than the prothorax, and in the much 

 narrower medisternum (only about half the width of that of 

 species of Cleptor). From lihyparula it is at once distin- 

 guished by the tibiae. On the female of tricolor the tibiae are 

 gently and quite evenly dilated to the apex, with the apex 

 itself not suddenly inflated ; on the male the four hind ones 

 are each produced at the outer apex, but there is not a distinct 

 notch before same. On the female of tranquilla (the only sex 

 at present known) they are as on the female of tricolor; its 

 front femora at first appear to be edentate, but from one 

 direction a vague tooth certainly appears to be present on 

 each, but it is very feeble ; at its position there is a feeble 

 groove, and the tooth seems to mark one side of the groove 

 and not to be elevated above the general surface. The evenly 

 rounded outline of each eye is slightly interrupted by becom- 

 ing straight close to the antenna, but the eye could scarcely 

 be regarded as notched. Both species are glabrous on the 

 upper-surface and almost so on the under-surface. The genus, 

 according to Chapuis' and Lefevre's tables, would belong to the 

 I'phimeitae. Typical species, tricolor. 



EuCOLASPIS TRICOLOR, n. Sp, 



J .' Flavous ; scutellum and elytra metallic green,, 

 abdomen black or deeply infuscated. 



