ABSTRACT
Pronotum broader than the head, convex, quadrate, or arcuate. anteriorly, posterior angles produced, acute; borders mostly finely margined laterally; surface punctate; hypomera wide; prosternum long in front of coxae, prosternal process produced between the coxae and fitted into a mesosternal fossa; procoxal cavities open behind. Mesosternum short; mesocoxal cavities open behind. Metasternum long and broad. Legs without exposed trochantins, middle trochantins exposed in Perothops; anterior coxae rounded, not prominent, separate; middle coxae rounded, flat, separate; hind coxae transverse, with femoral plates in some greatly expanded internally; trochanters of the fore and middle pair small, interstitial, hind pair triangular; femora swollen; tibiae slender, apical spurs obscure or moderate, prominent in some; tarsi 5-5-5, the tarsomeres slender, the penultimate may be somewhat lobed beneath, males frequently with sex-comb on first tarsomere; claws simple, dentate, or pectinate. Scutellum moderate, oval, obovate, or triangular. Elytra entire, rounded apically;
striae punctate, intervals smooth; epipleural fold indistinctly separated, broad basally. Wing venation and folding pattern as in Elateridae.
