mth a Notice of Chiasogndthus Grd?itii. 



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specimens of this extraordinary insect have recently been 

 brought to England from Java. 



The remaining memoir to which I shall refer is entitled 

 " A Description of Chiasogndthus [chiaso, to run down, 

 gnathos, a jaw ; decurrent processes of the jaw] Grdnt\i 

 [George Grant, M.D., who imported the insect] ; an insect 

 forming the type of an undescribed genus, nsoith some brief re- 

 marks upon its structure and affinities ; by J. F. Stephens, 

 F.L.S. ;" a quarto tract, extracted from the Cambridge Phi- 

 losophical Transactions for 1831, illustrated with two plates, 

 containing coloured representations of the upper and under 

 sides of this magnificent insect, with outlines of it in various 

 positions, and of its essential organs, executed by myself. 



This genus, as interesting from its structure, as it is re- 

 markable for its splendour and colouring, belongs to the family 

 of stag beetles, iucanidse ; and, in order to render the following 

 observations more intelligible, I here insert an outline of the 

 insect ijig. 71.)j of the natural size, omitting a portion of 



two of the limbs, rather than, by diminishing the size of the 

 figure, lessen the effect of the object. Mr. Stephens has 



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