BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 703 



Rostrum about the length of prothorax, curved, moderately wide 

 or rather narrow. Antennce moderately stout; scape short, con- 

 siderably shorter than funicle, inserted nearer base than apex of 

 rostrum, and not extending to apex; two basal joints of funicle 

 elongate, the others transverse; club ovate. Prothorax slightly 

 longer than wide or feebly transverse, subcorneal, apex produced, 

 base bisinuate, ocular lobes almost rectangular. Scutellum 

 slightly longer than wide, feebly raised. Elytra about twice the 

 length of prothorax, sides subparallel or feebly decreasing from 

 near base, base trisinuate; shoulders prominent, apex rounded. 

 Pectoral canal narrow, moderately deep, terminated almost at 

 metasternum. Mesosternal recepta cle very feebly raised, U-shaped, 

 sides very narrow; open. Metasternum shorter than basal seg- 

 ment of abdomen, episterna moderately large. Abdomen large, 

 sutures distinct; basal segment somewhat larger than 2nd, its 

 apex incurved to middle, intercoxal process narrow, produced in 

 middle; 3rd and 4th combined slightly shorter than 2nd, and 

 slightly longer than 5th. Legs rather short; femora moderately 

 stout, strongly dentate, the four posterior feebly grooved, posterior 

 terminated before apex of abdomen; tibise short, feebly compressed, 

 arcuate at base; tarsi moderately long, 3rd joint wide, deeply 

 bilobed, claw-joint elongate, feebly squamose;* claws moderately 

 separated. Rather strongly convex, elliptic, subcylindrical, 

 squamose, fasciculate, winged. 



Mr. Pascoe remarks : — •"' In Lacordaire's arrangement, this 

 genus would come next to Enteles, but in habit it resembles 

 Mecisiostylus Douei." I cannot see that the genus is at all close 

 to Enteles, and it is certainly one of the allies of C hcetecletorus. 

 Tn 1873, Mr. Pascoe described another genus, Axides,f comparing 

 it with Chimades, but not mentioning Phloeoglymma. The species, 

 however, (P. alternans and A. dorsalis) are undoubtedly con- 

 generic, agreeing in the open mesosternal receptacle, very finely 



* Mr. Pascoe describes the claw-joint of Axides as " esquamosa": in this, 

 however, he was mistaken, though the scales are much smaller than in 

 Chcetectetorus. 



t Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4), xii. p. 285. 



