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II. A division of the extensive genus Meligethes into seven groups. III. 

 Cyljoceplialus, a new genus, in the gronp of Strongylina; Genuine, like Aga- 

 thidium, in the form and the power of rolling itself up into a ball, con- 

 tains Anisotoma exigua, Sahib, (of which ntjiceps, Sahib, is the $ ), with 

 four new species, C. politus, from Mesopotamia, gibbulus, and chlorocephalus, 

 from the East Indies, and C. anticus, Klug, from Madagascar. IV. Remarks 

 on the genus J&hizophagvts : the feelers are ten-jointed, and the hind feet in 

 the male have only four joints. V. Distribution of the genera of the Tro- 

 gositinse or Peltidse in the following order : 1. Egolia, Er. (Arch, viii, 

 1, p. 180.) 2. AcalantUs, resembles the last : feelers ten-jointed, with 

 the club of two joints, the forehead simply notched in front, the shanks 

 spinous. A. k-signata, new species, from Chili. 3. Nemosoma: the 

 feelers ten-jointed in N. elonyata, eleven-jointed in N. coniuta, Sturm. 

 4. Temnochila (Temnosclieihi), Westw., distinguished from Trogosita by 

 the divided tongue and a groove down the fore part of the forehead ; 

 Tr. caeruleu, Oliv., and many American species. 5. Melamlia, composed 

 of Troy, gigas, F., and some closely allied species, separated from Tro- 

 gosita on account of the divided tongue and the blunt-spined shanks. 

 G. Alindria, distinguished from Trogosita by the cylindrical body and spiuous 

 shanks, containing Tr.grandis, Euc., Tr. spectabilis, Kl., Tr. cylindrical, Euc., 

 and a number of undescribed species. 7. Trogosita, the shanks without 

 spines, tongue square without division ; Tr. mauritanica (= caraboides, F.), 

 differs from most of its American congeners in the club of the feelers not 

 being abrupt. 8. Leper in a has, in common with the following genus, the 

 form and scaly covering of the body and the strong development of the inner 

 jawblade, while it agrees with the foregoing in the number and position of 

 the eyes. It consists of Peltis squamulata, Gebl., and Trogosita decorata, 

 Er. 9. Gymnockila, Kl. : eyes four, two larger placed obliquely, more dis- 

 tant from each other at the crown, and two smaller on the lower side behind 

 the insertion of the feelers. One species, G. vestita, Kl. 10. Anaeypta 

 111. : four eyes as in the last, the upper two approaching closely on the 

 crowii. The species is Nitidula punctata, F., = buprestoides, Web. I have 

 to remark, in addition, that the genus has been proposed by Dahnan 

 (Ephem. Ent. p. 15) also, as Across. He has overlooked the lower pair of 

 eyes, and was not acquainted with the native country of the species he 

 describes, Acr. metallicus, which, however, is identical with the first named. 

 11. Peltis, 12. Thi/malus, which differ from all the foregoing by the inner 

 jawblade forming a hook, and from each other by the strong hooked spine at 

 the end of the fore shank in Peltis, all the terminal spines being very short 

 and delicate in Thymalus. Peltis is increased with a new species, P. pubes- 

 cens, from the Crimea ; and of Thymalus, an American species, very like 

 limbatus, is distinguished, Th, fulgidus. 



CRYFTOPHAGIDES. Three species of the genus Atomaria, found in Ants' 



