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furnished with brushes on the inside. The 2 posterior legs 

 inserted rather distant from each other, the basal part of 

 abnormal construction: the trochanters are much elongated 

 and incrassated at the tip whilst the femora are at the place 

 of the juncture rather abruptly narrowed, bent, and slightly 

 compressed, they being at the same time thinner than the 

 adjoining apex of the trochanter the constriction is very 

 striking. 



26. Scydmjenus Ccylanicus. N. 



S. alati colore, sed major et magis depressus ; long, corp. f lin. Caput 

 magnum, robustum, thoracis latitudine. Antennae basi non approxim- 

 ate, art. 3-4 et 5-7 inter se subaiqualibus, arcum formantibus, 8-10 

 gradatim majoribus, subglobosis, depressis apice oblique truncatis, 11° 

 magno, conico, 8-11 longius pilosis, calvam, formantibus. Palpi maxill. 

 art. 4° minimo, semigloboso. Thorax ovatus, foveis basalibus nullis. 

 Elytra apice singulatim rotundata. Pedes validi tarsis 2 ant. art. lo 

 subtus in spinam sat fortem producto. 



An anomalous species, especially with regard to the antennae 

 which are much less approximated at the base than those of the 

 rest of the species belonging to this group, and with regard 

 to the two posterior coxae which on the contrary are more 

 approximated than in any of the species just referred to. The 

 insect is of the light brown color of the two former, but larger 

 and more depressed. The head is strikingly large and heavy, 

 of the width of the thorax, in its hind part, which is strongly 

 transverse, the oval form is prevailing over that of the square. 

 Eyes small. Antennae inserted under two strong protuber- 

 ances rather than under a ridge, their club 4 jointed, joints 

 3-7 forming an inwards bent section of a circle, joints 8-10 

 strongly compressed, obliquely truncated (subperfoliated) 11 

 large, conic. The 3rd joint of the maxill. palpi is of an 

 oblongo-ovato shape, the external basal angle is prolonged 

 into a small peduncle inserted in the apex of the 2nd joint, 



