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_AA. Pygidium not mucronate. 



B. Abdomen with conspicuous trans- 

 verse fascicles near base 



BB. Abdomen without any such fascicles. 

 C. (44) Abdominal fovea a circular 

 depression, without oblique, trans- 

 verse, or curved ridges. 



d. Elytra black 



dd. Elytra red 



CC. Abdominal fovea not as in C. 

 D. Fovea not abruptly terminated 

 at base of apical segment ... 

 DD. (45) Fovea abruptly terminated 

 there. 

 E. Prothorax black. 



e. Apex of fovea with con- 

 spicuous, long, ferruginous 



hairs 



ee. Apex not so clothed 



EE. Prothorax not black. 



F. Prothorax infuscate 



FF. Prothorax no darker than 

 elvtra 



squamiventris 



nigmnus 

 rvfipennis 



bursarice 



fasciculatns 

 vagans 



dubius 



nigriceps 



MlCROVALGUS LAPEYROUSEI, G. et P. 



Some years ago, the late Rev. T. Blackburn identified 

 some females from Galston as lapeyrousei. There are now 

 ten Galston females from his own collection, and three from 

 mine, bearing his name label, but these probably belong to 

 at least two species. ( 46 ) Not one of them agrees with the fol- 

 lowing particulars in the description given by Burmeister : ( 4? ) 

 "Fuscus, elytris tibiisque ruf escentibus ; supra dense fulvo- 

 squamosus," and "Under-surface blackish-brown, more sparsely 

 clothed with scales" ; nor with his own remarks on the species 

 when commenting on the genus : "Lapeyrousei, characterized 

 as a dark-brown species with reddish elytra and tibiae, and 

 underside blackish/' As the prothorax is no darker than the 

 elytra, and on the under-surface only the meso- and meta- 

 sternum are dark, and the legs are uniformly reddish ; the 

 scales also are entirely white or whitish and are denser on the 

 under- than on the upper-surface. 



(44) In these species the hind edge of the fovea, seen directly 

 from behind, appears as a transverse ridge, but this is really the 

 tip of the segment, not a specially elevated ridge. 



(45) The base of the abdomen is depressed in all species, but in 

 these the apical segment has a large fovea, which is separately 

 concave, glabrous, and conspicuously terminated in a straight line 

 at the base. 



(46) One of which is almost certainly castaneipennis. 



(47) Apparently the only description he had seen. 



