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Genus EsmIa, Pascoe. 
Paseoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. ii. s. vol. i. p, 44. 
Like the three preceding genera, the present has an elongate 
form of body. The antennae are a little longer than the body, 
and have the basal joint and the third and basal half of the fourth 
joints thickened and densely clothed with hairs ; the fifth joint 
has also a dense patch of hairs on its upper surface; the third 
and fourth joints are greatly elongated; the rest of the antenna, 
body, and legs are clothed less densely with shorter hairs. The 
front of the head is vertical, and the muzzle quadrate. The 
thorax is short, subqiiadrate, and armed on each side with a tu- 
bercle. The legs are moderately short, the tarsi short and rather 
broad, the claws divergent. 
Esmia turbata, Pascoe. 
Esmia turhata, Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. n. s. vol. i. p. 44. 
E. sublinearis, saturate castanea, subnitida, breviter hirsuta, punctata, 
iinealaterali totius corporis, altera per thoracem et suturam elytrorum 
extensa lineolisque discoidalibus elytrorum fiavis. Long. 3| lin. 
Ega, on slender branches ; rare. 
Group TapeinincB 
Genus Tapeina, Serviile. 
Serville, Encycl. Method, x. p. 545. 
Body oblong, extremely depressed, clothed with erect hairs. 
Head broad and short, the lower part not being prolonged be- 
low the eyes, and the front edge of the crown in the female 
either forming a transverse ridge a little above the labrum or 
sloping to the epistome, and in the male elongated laterally into 
projections of various forms according to the species. Antennse 
longer than the body, stout, setaceous. Thorax transverse oval. 
Elytra rounded at the tip. Legs moderately short; thighs 
clavate ; tarsi short and broad ; claws divergent. 
The species forming this curious genus are found underneath 
close-fitting bark of trees, after they have been felled or uprooted 
in the forest. They share this peculiar habitat with the flattened 
Cucujidee, Nitidulidse, Histeridse, and others, all of which form 
together a somewhat extensive insect-fauna suited to these con- 
fined habitations. 
* This group was placed provisionally under the Saperditse, in the 
synopsis previously given of the Lamiaires. A more accurate examination 
has convinced me that it has closer affinities with the members of the 
Desmiphoritoe. The Tapeinae, in fact, appear to be abnormally flattened 
forms of Exocentrinae. 
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