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Corpus crassum, totum velutino-atrum. Antenne clava magna, 
compressa, serrata, septemfida: articulo extimo hinc subemar- 
ginato. Elytra ante apicem lunula reversa, obscura, cinerea. 
Anus aculeo ordinario. 
This species in every respect so entirely resembles the other 
Mordelle, under which genus I only place those ano aculeato, that 
I do not conceive the difference of structure observable in its 
antennæ, which may perhaps be a sexual character, a sufficient 
indication that it should form a distinct genus. 
(Meloide.) 
-~ Gyatuium Kirby. 
Labrum transversum. | T 
Labium minutissimum vix discernendum. 
Mandibule protensæ, elongate, apice incurvæ, edentulæ, acutis- 
simae. — —— 
Maaille apertæ : lobo longissimo gracillimo. 
Palpi filiformes: articulis cylindricis. 
Mentum trapeziforme ? : 
Antenne extrorsum crassiores : articulo extimo elongato-conico. 
Corpus obcuneato-lineare. 
Thorax campanulatus. . — 2 | 
This genus comes next to Nemognatha Ilig., from which it bor- 
rows that remarkable sexual? character, of having the lobe of the 
maxillæ, like those of a bee, almost as long as the body ; but it 
differs in having a transverse instead of a circular labrum, in its 
mandibule protended far beyond the labrum, in its incrassate an- 
tennze, which gives it some connexion with Mylabris. 'The shape 
of the head and thorax also is different. [he insect is so minute 
that I have not been able to geta clear idea of the shape of the 
labium and mentum, but I think the latter is tra peziform. 
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