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Genus VI.— Oxypoda, Mann, ruficornis, lividipennis, melanaria, opaca> um« 
brata, pellucida, lateralis, alternans, procerula, sericata, cingulata, obtuscata. 12. 
2. The head more or less exserted; the body scarcely narrowed posteri¬ 
orly ; the thorax generally rotundate, with the angles scarcely de- 
flexed ; the legs pubescent. 
a . The five terminal joints of the antennse suddenly thickened. 
a. The body convex, narrowed anteriorly ; the first joint of the tarsi a 
little the longest. 
Genus VII.— Microcera, Mann . inflata. 1. 
b. The body sub-depressed, not narrowed ; the tarsi slender, the joints 
sub-equal. 
Genus VIII.— Oligota, Mann, pusillima. 1. 
g. The antennse, with the two basal joints, robust, sub-globose, the re¬ 
mainder setose. 
Genus IX.— Trichophya, Mann, pilicornis. 1. 
y . The antennse more or less distinctly thickened towards the apex. 
a. The head sub-sessile, not broader than the base of the thorax. 
% The thorax of the width of the head; the body flat, linear; the 
antennse moniliform; the last joint of the tarsi about equal to 
the rest collectively. 
Genus X.— Homalota, Mann, plana. 1. 
%% The thorax transverse, globose, broader than the head, posteri¬ 
orly reflexed and marginate; the body short, depressed, but 
revolved into a globe when frightened; the joints of the tarsi 
equal. 
Genus XI.— Gyrophjena, Mann, nitidula, nana, aflinis, polita. 4. 
%%% The thorax broader than the head, rounded laterally; the 
body in the majority subdepressed, posteriorly sublinear; the 
first joint of the tarsi longer than the next following. 
Genus XII.— Bolitochara, Mann. Collaris, lunulata, prolixa, carbonaria, 
circellaris, inquinalis, teres, annularis, analis, reptans, hsemorrhoa, crassicornis, 
longiuscula, sericans, luridipennis, castanoptera, socialis, nigritula, axillaris, atra- 
mentaria, aterrima, excavata, bifoveolata, linearis, angustula, atra, elongatula, ob- 
longa, complana, terminalis, exilis, quisquiliarum, planiuscula, depressiuscula, com- 
pressa, tenella, evanescens, humeralis, limbata, funesta, depressa, flavipes, cinna- 
monea, pumilio, atrata, boleti, suturalis, pulchella, elegantula, longicornis, validi- 
cornis, fungi, agaricola, fuscula, parvula, pallidula, impressifrons. 57. 
%%%* The thorax elongate, of about the width of the head, scarcely 
rounded laterally; the body elongate; the abdomen somewhat 
dilated posteriorly; the first joint of the tarsi, especially of the 
posterior legs, much longer than the next following. 
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