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a yellow line in front ; face white ; mandibles yellow ; anterior 

 tibia yellow ; fore femora with a yellow line in front ; abdomen 

 piceous, with a fringe of white hair on each side of the first seg- 

 ment. Length 3 lines. 



Hylaeus punctulatissimus, Smith. ? Black, with a cream-coloured 

 stripe close to the eyes ; antenna black ,• thorax coarsely punc- 

 tured, varied with pale yellow ; abdomen with a fringe of white 

 hair on each side of the first segment. <$ H. annularis, var. y, 

 Kirby. Taken in company together at Coombe. 



Hyleeus hyalinatus, Smith. °. Head and thorax black, very mi- 

 nutely punctured with deeper punctures intermixed ; antenna black ; 

 wings hyaline ; legs black, posterior annulated with yellow. $ 

 Black ; face yellow, scape of antenna black, remaining joints ful- 

 vous beneath-, thorax with a yellow spot on the tegula and tubercles; 

 wings hyaline. Length 2 lines. — Received from Mr. Thwaites. 



" Descriptions of some new exotic genera belonging to the family 

 of the Sacred Beetles." By J. O. Westwood, F.L.S. 



Retaining Canthon viridis, Klug, as the type of Epilissus, Dej. 

 Cat., Mr. Westwood considers Circelliumnitidum, Lap. Hist. nat. ins. 

 col. ii. p. 66, from Madagascar, as the type of a separate subgenus 

 under the name of 



Arachnodes, W. Mentum bast latius, lateribus convergentibus 

 apice haud emarginato. Palpi labiates graciles. Prothorax la- 

 teribus, pone medium valde angulatis et refiexis. Pedes valde 

 elongati, femoribus longis haud compressis. Tarsi articulo ultimo 

 subtils ad apicem in spinam parvam producto. 



Nanos, W. Antennarum clava, brevis, subrotundata. Mentum in 

 medio latius, antice valde emarginatum. Palpi labiates brevissimi 

 crassi. Prothorax lateribus fere rotundatis haud refiexis. Pedes 

 pariim elongati, tibiis curvatis. — Type Circellium pygmaeum, La- 

 porte. Madagascar. 



Macroderes, W. Corpus fere hemisphericum, clypeus emargina- 

 tus. Mentum^ subtriangulare antice profunde fissum. Prothorax 

 maximus lateribus rotundatis, antice utrinque obsolete retusus. 

 Elytra levissime striato-punctata. Tibia postica apice dilatata, 

 tarsi articulo basalt magno compresso triangulari. — Type Ontho- 

 phagus Greeni, Kirby. Cape of Good Hope. 



Uxoxys, W. Corpus oblongum subdepressum, elytris postice acumi- 

 natis. Clypeus antice acute bilobus. Mentum subquadratum, an- 

 tice pariim emarginatum. Palpi labiates articulis long itudine fere 

 aqualibus. Prothorax lateribus in medio angulatis. Pedes an- 

 tici elongati, tibiis (in uno sexu) depressis intus angulatis. Tarsi 

 4postici articulis magnitudine decrescentibus . 



Uroxys cuprescens, W. U. cupreo- seu violaceo-nigricans, niiida 

 lavissime punctulata, antennis rufescentibus, elytris striis 8 leviter 

 punctatis, tarsis piceis. Long. corp. lin. 4 J. — Hab. Colombia. 



Scatonomus (Erichson) Myrmidon, W. S. subcylindricus, niger, 

 capite et pronoto viridibus nitidis, clypeo profunde emarginato, in 

 sinu acute bidentato ; elytris leviter striatis ; prothoracis angulis 

 posticis promincntibus. Long. corp. lin. 2. — Hab. Cayenne. 



