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others, but there are a few feeble ones even on the suture. 

 The curious clothing, like a large depressed pad, on part of the 

 under-surface (the derm beneath it is depressed) may be a 

 sexual character; the type is evidently a male. 



Tylocis, n. g. 



Head partially concealed from above. Eyes small, widely 

 separated, finely faceted, triangular in front. Rostrum of 

 moderate length and rather thin, lightly curved. Antennae 

 rather thin; scape inserted nearer base than apex of rostrum, 

 much shorter than funicle ; two basal joints of funicle elongate ; 

 club ovate. Prothorax transverse, base bisinuate, apex pro- 

 duced. Scutellum indistinct. Elytra subparallel-sided to 

 beyond the middle, base trisinuate. Pectoral canal deep and 

 wide, terminated between four front coxae. Mesosternal recep- 

 tacle rather large, raised in front, emargination semicircular ; 

 cavernous. Metasternum about half the length of the follow- 

 ing segment. A hdomen large, first segment as long as second 

 and third combined, third and fourth combined shorter than 

 second, but longer than fifth. Legs short; femora moderately 

 stout, neither grooved nor dentate ; tibiae lightly compressed ; 

 tarsi rather short, fourth joint elongate, squamose and setose. 



The typical species at first sight appears to belong to 

 Chcetectetorus, near which the genus should be placed, but 

 the ej^es are finely faceted and the metasternum very short. 

 In my table of the allied genera would be associated with 

 Ephryclnus, but the only known species of that genus has its 

 metasternum longer than the following segment and its elytra 

 non-tuberculate. Tituacia has a very short metasternum, but 

 is otherwise very different. The clothing of the metasternum 

 is so dense that its lateral sutures are scarcely traceable ; the 

 episterna, however, are very narrow in the middle, but dilated 

 tov/ards the ends. 



Tylocis squamibundus, n. sp. 



Very densely clothed with dark muddy-brown scales, some- 

 what paler near shoulders and on under-surface, legs, head, 

 and rostrum. Upper-surface with stout and usually sooty 

 scales scattered about, and condensed into fascicles ; under- 

 surface and legs with stout and usually paler scales set amongst 

 the others. 



Head with concealed but evidently dense punctures; 

 ocular fovea round and distinct through clothing. Rostrum 

 almost as long as prothorax, sides feebly incurved to middle ; 

 with very dense concealed punctures. Prothorax rather lightly 

 transverse, sides on basal half rather feebly rounded, apex 

 about half the width of base ; surface uneven and feebly tuber- 

 culate beneath fascicles ; with a distinct scutellar lobe ; with 



