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not a sufficiently good generic character), and the impression on the 

 upper part of the tarsi. 



Glyphodactyla femoralis, Chaud., 

 Loc. cit., p. 9. 



Black, with the antennae, palpi, legs, and tarsi rusty red ; head 

 smooth, with two longitudinal impressions between the eyes ; pro- 

 thorax broader than the head, nearly as broad as long, sinuate in 

 front, with the sides rounded, truncate at the base, with the posterior 

 angles much rounded, finely plicate transversely, slightly convex, 

 with a median longitudinal groove and a small depression on each 

 side of the base, the outer sides depressed, with the margins much 

 recurved near the base ; elytra plane, deeply punctato-striate, the 

 intervals slightly raised, the third one with two punctures, the first 

 in the anterior part, the second one at the apex, the outer margin 

 with an interrupted series of deeper punctures. Length 11 mm. ; 

 width 5 mm. 



Hab. Cape of Good Hope, teste Chaud. 



Teibe TETEAGONODEEIDES. 



Mentum with or without a median tooth ; ligula broadening at 

 the tip, truncate ; paraglossse broader than the ligula, and produced 

 beyond it in a broadly ovate lobe ; claw of the maxillae surmounted 

 by a moderately thick lobe ; antennae filiform ; elytra ovate or 

 elongato-ovate ; anterior tarsi of the male with the three basal joints 

 dilated ; tibias, with two long apical spines, longer in the intermediate 

 and posterior ones. 



Synopsis of Genera. 



Mentum, with a median tooth. 



Elytra suborbicular ; labrum deeply emarginate in the centre Cydosoniis. 

 Elytra elongate, or elongato-ovate ; labrum slightly emargi- 

 nate at the apex ; tarsi of intermediate legs dilated Tctragojiodcnis. 



Mentum without a median tooth. 



Elytra elongato-ovate ; tarsi of intermediate legs not dilated Tilius. 



Gen. CYCLOSOMUS, Latreille, 

 Eegn. Anim., ii., 1829, p. 334. 

 Base of mentum filled with a triangular tooth, a little incised at 

 the apex, half as long as the lateral lobes ; ligula narrow, broadening 

 at the tip ; the paraglossae longer, and produced in a globose lobe ; 

 antennae filiform ; labrum broadly emarginate at the apex ; pro- 

 thorax, with the apical part crescent shape, the base truncate, 

 broader than the apex, and the outer sides curving gradually from 



