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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of heteromerous beetles, typical of the family Rhipiphoridæ, having the elytra shorter than the body, the mouth-organs perfect, the middle coxæ contiguous, and the vertex depressed, not projecting above the anterior border of the pronotum.

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