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Head remotely punctured, the clypeus scarcely separated from 

 the face, its anterior margin deeply and subquadrately ernarginate 

 at the middle, the surface minutely punctured, palpi pale fulvous, 

 antenn?e slender, fulvous, the basai joint elongate, the second but 

 slightly shorter than the third, terminal joints very slightly thicke- 

 ned; thorax nearly twice as broad as long, the latéral margins evenly 

 rounded, wilh a narrow margin, anterior margin simple, the sur- 

 face remotely and rather strongly punctured except anteriorly, 

 scutellum smooth; elytra subcylindrical, not depressed below the 

 base, with deep, close and somewhat transversely shaped punc- 

 tures, the interstices strongly longitudinally costate throughout, 

 the femora with a very minute tooth, incrassate, the tibise feebly 

 chanelled at the sides, the four posterior ones emarginate at the 

 apex, claws bifid. 



Hah. Diego Suarez (Gh. AUuaud), my collection. 



Von Harold in bis diagnosis of the genus Pheloticus states that 

 the anterior and intermediate femora are unarmed and the tibise 

 not sulcate nor chanelled which is certainly the case in P. dorsalis 

 Har. but thèse characters are not constant in scarcely any genus of 

 this group, the Typophorinœ and as is the case in the présent spe- 

 cies, indications of fémoral teeth and chanelled tibise occur fre- 

 quently. Yet thèse characters are not so strongly marked as in 

 Syagrus and nothing remains but to include thèse insects in the 

 most nearly allied genus, Pheloticus which contains other species 

 of similar structures described by Fairmaire and myself. In P,sulca- 

 tipennis the coloration is almost black, with the exception of the 

 antennse and the tarsi; the insect bears some resemblance to Sya- 

 grus costatipennis Jac. likewise from Madagascar, but the latter is 

 smaller, the thorax is of différent shape and coarsely punctured and 

 the legs are dark fulvous. 



PHELOTICUS FULVITARSIS n. sp. 



Dark metallic blue, the antennae and the tarsi fulvous, thorax 

 transverse, strongly and closely punctured, elytra deeply punctate- 

 striate, the punctures strong at the base, gradually diminishing 

 towards the apex, the interstices convex at the sides. 



Length 6 mill. 



Head closely and almost foveolate-punctate, the vertex with a 

 central ridge, clypeus as strongly punctured, separated from the 

 face by a distinct groove, its anterior margin straight, antennae 

 fulvous, the basai joint bluish above, the second joint halfthe length 

 of the third; thorax of the same shape as the preceding species, the 

 surface strongly and rather closely punctured, the punctures round 



