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strongly punctato-striate with the alternate intervals more or less. 
costate, the third one after the median part, and the fifth before the 
apex have a tubercular swelling impressed laterally; the hind tibiae 
of the male are deeply notched at about three-quarters of the length 
in the inner side. Length 1:8-2 mm. 
Gen. ENICMUS, Th., 
Skand. Col., v., p. 233. 
Body ovate, more or less convex ; antennz eleven-jointed, inserted 
upwards at the anterior angle of the forehead and rather close to the 
eyes, which are rounded, large, and lateral, the three apical joints 
form an elongate, loose club; thorax even, more or less densely 
punctate, transversely impressed before the base, sulcate or foveolate 
in the middle of the disk, but without longitudinal coste ; scutellum 
transverse, very distinct; elytra free, striato-punctate, with the seventh 
interval more or less costate. 
The prosternum in Hiicmus proper is sharply cariniform between 
the anterior coxe. I have seen no representative of this sub-genus. 
from South Africa. 
Susp-Gen. CONITHASSA, Thoms., 
Skand. Coleopt., v., p. 221; Belon, Rev. Franc. d’Entom., 1897, 
p. Lok: 
In Conthassa the posternum is not so much raised and not pro- 
duced between the anterior coxe. The following species is spread 
abundantly all over the world, and the structure and outline of the 
prothorax are most variable. 
Enicmus (CONITHASSA) MINUTUS, Linn., 
Syst. Natur, i) p. Cfonm 2: 
Pernudius flavicornis, Motsch., Bull. Mose., 1866, iii., p. 240. 
Permidius basalis, Motsch., loc. cit., p. 246. 
This species is easily identified in spite of its variableness; the 
thorax usually as long as broad, and a little narrowed towards 
the base, is rugosely punctate, and has two longitudinal fovez in 
the centre which often unite and form a median shallow depression 
or furrow; it has besides a rather deep transverse impression in 
front of the base, the lateral margins are more or less lobate in 
