472 Descriptive Catalogue [1896. 



the mentum more or less deep and with a median blunted tooth, 

 last joint of maxillary and labial palpi cultriform or securiform, the 

 last one of the libial pubescent {Tefflus excluded) ; labrum with only- 

 four setigerous punctures ; a supra-orbital seta over the back part of 

 the eye in Tefflus, two in the other genera. 



Synopsis of Genera. 

 Body not punctured underneath. 

 Paraglossae a little longer than the ligula. 

 Fourth joint of the tarsi incised. 



The two joints of the anterior tarsi spongy underneath in the 

 male, and the lateral part only of the joints of tarsi spongy in 

 both sexes Tefflus. 



Body densely punctured underneath. 



Tarsi similar in both sexes. 



Fourth joint of the tarsi not incised, joints not spongy under- 

 neath. 



Last joint of palpi cultriform or broadly securiform. 



Head moderately long, antennae moderately thick Eudema. 



Head very much elongate before the eyes, antennae with the 

 joints compressed and subdilated in the inner part Isotarsus. 



Anterior tarsi of male much dilated, spongy beneath . . . . Epigrajjhiis. 



Fourth joint of the tarsi bilobate Dischissus. 



Paraglossae fused with the lateral angle of the ligula and not 

 longer Euschizonierus. 



Gen. tefflus, Latreille, 

 Icon. Col. Europ., ed. i., p. 87. 



Mentum broad, inner part of the lobes nearly perpendicular, 

 median part wide ; the median tooth short, bluntly bifid ; last joint 

 of maxillary and labial palpi ensiform ; ligula horny in the centre, 

 emarginate at the apex, which bears two setae, the outer sides 

 diagonal and slightly sinuate, acutely carinate in the centre ; para- 

 glossae incurved, short, hardly longer than the outer angle of the 

 ligula ; maxillae ending in a very long hook ; mandibles short, strong, 

 acute ; labrum truncate with two deep setigerous punctures, one in 

 the outer angle the other near the median part ; epistoma long ; head 

 parallel ; eyes prominent ; third joint of antennae as long as the 

 fourth and fifth together ; prothorax hexagonal ; elytra elongate - 

 ovate, very convex, intervals carinate ; legs long, the two basal joints 

 of the anterior tibiae dilated in the male and spongy underneath ; 

 joints of all tarsi sublobate, inner and outer sides of the lobe spongy 

 underneath in both sexes. 



Hab. Tefflus occurs in East Central Africa from Mozambique to 

 Abyssinia, and also in West Central Africa from Ovampoland to the 

 Guinea Coast. It is generally found in damp or mossy places and 

 under stones. 



