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their length ; three joints of the anterior tarsi slightly dilated, frin 
beneath with long hairs and furnished with a double row of squa 
This genus belongs to the PericaHnce in the length of the labi 
and the length and width of the paraglossse, attached to the ligul 
far as its anterior angles, and in the simplicity of the 4th tarsal jc 
It is closely allied to Stenognathus, a genus hitherto considered 
undoubtedly an Anchomenus form, and which also has connate p 
gloss?e, broader and longer than the ligula ; but in Stenoffuathm 
tarsal claws are quite simple. The two genera bridge over comple 
the interval which separates the two sub-families. 
PuLCEOTHEEATES NiGEOPiCEUS, ?i. sp. Ohlongus, postice latior, 
depresstm ; piceo-niger, nitidus, corpore subtus cum palpis pedibu 
pallidiorihus ; elytris profunde striatis. 
Long. 9 tnillim. Lat. elytr. 4^ millim. ^ ^ 
Black or piceous, with the lateral margins of the thorax and elytra red 
piceous ; the labrura, palpi and antennae also dull reddish, with the 3rd and 
joints of the latter darker ; the legs are reddish, with apex of femora and t 
sometimes black ; the whole median portion of the under-surface reddish, 
forehead has two large distinct punctures on each side near the eye placed t 
versely ; the thorax is finely strigose, and the elytra have the usual three . 
punctures on the 3rd interstice. 
Found coursing amongst Boleti on dead tree-trunks, in comj 
with Stenognathus and Coptodera, but much rarer ; Ega and the Tap; 
Stnonymical Notes. 
Coptodera antipodum, Bates, Ent. M. Mag., 1867, p. 78, is a FJiilophl 
Coptodera guttata. Chaud. {Agonocheila id., Chaud.), Von Harold 
Gemminger's Cat., is not a Coptodera, but most probably 
distinct from PMlopMoeus. 
Coptodera viridis, Solier, has no resemblance to Coptodera ; it is re 
tered twice in V. Harold & Gemminger's Cat., under Bro 
and Coptodera ; it belongs to the genus JOobius, Motschul 
Stenoglossa corticalis, Chaud., V. Harold & Gemminger's Cat 
nowhere described, and should be erased. 
Thyreopterus luto.ms, Newm., V. Harold & Gemminger's Cat., 
PMlopliloeus, and occurs at Melbourne and Adelaide. 
40, Bartholomew Road, Kentish Town, N.W., 
121'/) July, 1869 
