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punctured, and acting as a partial protection for the 

 antennae; the eye on each side is protected at the rear by 

 an almost spiniform process, and is very distinct from below 

 and but little visible from above. 



EtJTERMICOLA, 11. g. 



Head almost concealed from above, almost vertical and 

 flat; clypeus with sutures completely obliterated; labrum 

 short, strongly transverse. Eyes small, subreniform, coarsely 

 granulated, concealed from above. Palpi short and stout, 

 apical joint of each subelliptic and obliquely truncate at apex. 

 Antennae apparently eleven-jointed, slightly thickened in 

 middle, joints closely applied to each other, basal one con- 

 cealed from above, the others each with a ring of bristles. 

 Prothorax strongly sculptured. Sent ell u m short and trans- 

 verse. Elytra strongly sculptured, parallel-sided to near 

 apex. Prosternum with front margin incurved to middle. 

 Mesosternum very short. Metasternum about as long as 

 basal segment of abdomen along middle, episterna parallel- 

 sided. Abdomen composed of five segments, first along- 

 middle conspicuously longer than second, but from about 

 middle of coxae just as long, second slightly longer than 

 third, and third than fourth, fifth about once and one-half 

 the length of fourth. Legs rather short and stout ; front 

 coxae inserted about one-fourth f rora . base of prosternum, 

 separated by a short and narrow intercoxal process, hind 

 coxae stout, almost touching sides of abdomen ; femora 

 grooved on apical half of under-surfaee, edentate : tibiae 

 short, slightly dilated at apex, which is notched on one side 

 to receive base of tarsi, and with two small spurs-; tarsi thin, 

 joints closely applied together and almost parallel-sided, 

 claws thin, simple, and widely diverging. 



A highly-remarkable genus, which I refer to the vicinity 

 of Nepharinus (principally on account of the antennae), but 

 for which quite possibly a new family should have been 

 proposed. The joints of the antennae are so closely articu- 

 lated that it is difficult to count them, but they appear to be 

 eleven in number. The tarsi, under a Coddington lens, 

 appear to be parallel-sided and almost non-articulate, and 

 certainly no joint is bilobed : but under a compound power 

 the front ones appear to be five-jointed, the joints slightly 

 narrowing to the fourth, the first joint seems to be slightly 

 longer than the second or third, the fifth from some directions 

 appears to be composed of two joints, of which the basal one 

 is the length of the fourth, but this is due to a few setae. 

 I have found it quite impossible to count the number of 

 joints of the four hind tarsi, as the basal portion is quite 



