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Genus iETHEOMORPHA. 
HStheomorplia, Lacord. Mon. Phytoph. ii, 1848, p. 311; Chiqmis, 
Gen. Coleopt. x, 1874, p. 123. ' 
Type, PE. nematoides , Lacord., from Africa. 
Range. Africa, India, and Australia. 
Of variable shape, sometimes cylindrical, sometimes subovate. 
Head small, very short, smooth, perpendicular; mandibles very 
short ; eyes rather small, not pubescent near margin ; antennae 
more or less robust, second and third joints short, subcorneal, 
following joints triangular. Thorax variable, posterior angles 
generally distinct. Scutellum large. Elytra more or less strongly 
lobed at sides. Legs feeble, tarsi short, the first joint longer than 
the second, third small, fourth slender. Pygidium exposed. 
Very closely allied to Gy nandr ophthalmia ; the antennae more 
robust ; the elytra with more or less distinct epipleural lobes and 
shorter tarsi, the pygidium not covered by elytra. The genus is 
also closely allied to Aspidolopha and Peploptera ; the species are 
however, variable in appearance and shape generally ; the thorax 
especially varies greatly. The species of PEtheomorpha are not 
generically well defined but represent rather transitional forms. 
Elytra punctate- striate. 
221. iEtheomorpha fallax, Lacord. Mon. Phytopli. ii, 1848, p. 314. 
“c?. Entirely ftavous, short and oblong; head smooth, with 
three foveae placed triangularly between the eyes ; clypeus feebly 
emarginate ; eyes large, nearly entire ; antennae fulvous, rather 
longer than the thorax. Thorax more than twice as broad as long, 
subcylindrical, sides straight, posterior angles strongly rounded, 
scarcely lobed at middle, very smooth and impunctate. Scutellum 
large, triangular. Elytra rather strongly lobed at the sides, with 
ten rows of deep punctures, entirely obsolete near apex, another 
short row near suture at base. Legs short and slender like the 
tarsi.’’ ( Lcicordaire .) 
Length 4 mm. 
Hah. India (Lacord.). Malabar Coast : Make {Coll. Jacoby). 
Lacordaire gives the shape of the female as short and slightly 
narrowed posteriorly ; my specimens, which agree in all other 
respects with the type, are more elongate and posteriorly widened ; 
the antennm do not extend to the base of the thorax. The species 
may be known principally by the strong and regularly punctate- 
striate elytra, impunctate thorax, ancl unicolorous upper- and 
underside. 
