Descriiition of a new Coleopterous Genus. 9 II. Descri]}tion of anew Coleopterous Genus, belonging to the Tribe Prionida, termed Torneutes. Br/ G. Ch. Reich, M.D., For. M. L. S. Lond., For. M. E. S., ^c. [Read Nov. 2, 1835.] Among a considerable number of coleopterous insects, collected in the province Eiitre Rios, of the state of Argentina, in South America, I had the pleasure to obtain the type of a new Genus of the Tribe of Prionida, which differs from each of the genera of LoNGicoRNES, Lcitr., published (in the new classification) of that family, in the Annates de la Sociele Entomologique de France, tome i. Paris, 1832, 8vo. p. 118, &c., by M. Audinet-Serville, in so many points, that it cannot be brought under any of the fifty genera therein established. It is, especially in the much lengthened, slender, and subcylindric, or rather subdepressed form of its body, the un-common number of twelve joints in the antennae, the parallele-piped form of its unarmed thorax, and the shortness of its legs, by which it is distinguished at first sight from all the other genera of this tribe ; and although the decreasing length and increasing narrowness of the joints of its filiform antennae, from the basal joint to the apex, give to this insect some resemblance to the sub-tribe Spondylii, which the above-mentioned distinguished French Entomologist has placed at the head of his tribe Prionii, or rather with the genus Parandra, excluded by him from that tribe (so that we might possibly consider this new genus as the connecting link between the Spondylii and Prionii); yet it possesses a greater affinity to the last, so that it seems impossible to separate it from them, without violating the rules of a sound natural arrangement. The Latin lansuase being that of the true scholar in natural history, is here adopted. I would also suggest, at the same time, that the general ayjpellations of the Orders, Tribes, and Families, as being adjectives referring to the substantives Insecta, Coleoptera, Eleutherata, &c. should always be given in the neuter gender, and never in the masculine or feminine. Familia : Longicornia. Latr. Tribus : Prionida. Genus: Torneutes. (Tab. 2. fig. 1, 2, 3.) CoRprs elongatura, angustum, aequale, subcylindricum, Statura lineari, depressiuscula, et facie fere Parandrce giganticae aut Monotomalis mutici. Caput exsertum, porrectum, subrotundatimn, Ifttitudine in medio
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