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sublevia; pedes sat elongati, femoribus posticis elytrorum 
apicem p ane vel fere attingentibus tarsis 5-articulatis, 
articulo basali (tarsorum ichs superne haud manifesto, 
articulo ultimo robusto przcedenti parum wis ungui- 
culis parvis pairs disaricadi: ; corpus modice elongatum, 
capillis erectis vest. 
Type Opilo a pate Vd ic Westw.). 
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pronotum transversely sulcate near the front, in combination 
associate it with the Serobiger group of genera m those 
genera its mesosternum not cal in front, its elytra neither 
more than twice as long as at the base wide) are sufficient to 
distinguish it. 
haracters such as these appear to me certainly entitled to be 
treated as generic in the Cleride, a family in which many 
most famili Metabasis and nasimomorpha, e al 
ostenus and Paratillus) being so much like each other 
respectively that it seems st to separate them widely, and 
resent genus, undoubtedly resemble each other closely in 
Structural characters, but each has so distinctive and censo a 
facies and type of sculpture that it seems unreasonable t 
any two of them under one generic name. Probably vins “thet 
life histories and habits are fully known it will be found t 
each of these Juge mimics the facies of the group of ine on 
which it is parasi 
XN. rauciceps, sp. nov. Sat elongatus, postice sat dilatatus ; sat 
nitidus; zeneo-niger, labro antennis palpis tibiis tarsisque 
rufis, elytris ante medium macula discoidali et ad medium 
fascia sat lata albidis ornatis (parte apicali rufescenti dense 
EI pubescenti); capite confertim subgrosse ruguloso, 
