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Show 52 MR. M. JACOBY ON N E W GENERA AND [Jan. 3, Head flat, slightly depressed between the eyes, closely covered with fine longitudinal striae, a triangular space between the eyes impunctate and smooth; anterior margin of the clypeus perfectly-straight. Labrum transverse, black. Antennae shorter than the thorax; fulvous, the first joint metallic aeneous, dentate from the seventh joint. Thorax nearly four times as broad as long, the posterior margin moderately produced at the middle, the median lobe not produced and straight; sides rounded, the entire surface closely covered with elongate punctures and fine longitudinal striae. Scutellum rather broad, triangular, smooth. Elytra slightly broader at the base than the thorax, regularly convex, the apex rounded, with an obsoletely raised short costa near the lateral margin towards the apex; lateral lobe moderately produced and rounded; surface covered with smaller and larger punctures on the disk, the sides and apex finely and closely strigose ; entirely of a metallic bronze colour. Underside and legs of the same colour,'closely rugose-punctate; the abdominal segments of nearly equal length ; tarsi fulvous. Prosternum rather broader than long, compressed and narrowed behind, rugose-punctate. Two specimens are contained in m y collection. I may add to the above description, that the elytra in both the specimens before me are covered with small purplish spots of different shape and position, which I attribute to accident or discoloration of the ground-colour, although I cannot be sure about it. One specimen shows also a short pygidium, while the latter is totally covered by the elytra in the other. E U M O L P I D .E. E U L Y C H I U S , nov. gen. (sect. Typophorinai). Antennae with the last five joints Avidened, last three joints broadly transverse, wider than long. Eyes distant, entire. Prosternum narrowed at the middle, its base truncate; femora without teeth ; intermediate tibiae notched at the apex. Claws bifid, the inner division minute. Type, Eulychius madagascariensis. This genus may be at once distinguished from all those belonging to the Typophorince by the broadly transverse and flattened apical joints of the antennae. It seems to be allied to the genus Sybriacus, Har., but differs in the unarmed femora and bifid claws. 4. EULYCHIUS MADAGASCARIENSIS, sp. nov. Oblong, rufous ; last three joints of the antennae black ; thorax coarsely punctured; elytra finely punctate-striate, black, opaque, shoulders and the apex rufous. Length 2h lines. Hab. Madagascar. Head rather closely and strongly punctured. Clypeus separated from the face by an obsolete transverse groove. Labrum testaceous. Antennae extending to the base of the thorax ; first joint subglobular, |
