(apt. P. P. King's South .hncriaui ( olroptrr.i. 

 *122. CALLVNTRA MULTICOSTATA, (iurr. .)/„.. de Zoo/. 1884, p. :,. Snlin M 



y//m. .S'oc Ail. vol. v. p. 887, pL 7. f. IS. 

 Taken by Lieut. Graves. 



123. Epipedonota lata, WaUrkmue in Proceed ZooL Soc. 1841, p. 119, 



From Chiloe. 



* 124. Epipedonota marginrplicata. Curt, 



Nigra nitida, thorace concavo in disco longitadinaliter in margioibai t raw i 

 striata, elytris porcis 2 exteriore fortiori" : intervallo inter bane ma; 

 que exteriorem regulariter transverse canalicular (Tab. XLI. fig. i 



Length 1 1 lines, breadth C. 



Black, shining; antenna? short, with whitish hairs, the extremities nlkv whitish; dj\ 

 and head punctured on the sides: thorax very broad, concave, narrowed in front rod 

 deeply emarginate, the angles acuminated; sides very convex, the base bisim 

 gonate and rounded, the centre striated longitudinally and forming irrcgularly-vermi- 

 culated lines leaving plain spaces, with a very large transverse oval impression, rrorhing 

 almost to the anterior and to the lateral margins, which are broad and tran^ersdy 

 channeled: elytra gradually increasing from the base, which is concave and very broad, 

 to a little beyond the middle, where it is very much sloped off, the apex bring tri- 

 gonate ; there are 2 wavy striae on the back, leaving the suture and the spa< < 

 them a little raised and undulating ; nearer to the external margin ii a large ridge, n 

 most beyond the middle, the space between them with deep transverse channel-, form- 

 ing broadish convex spaces, about 19 in number; inflected margin smooth : abdomen 

 striated, excepting the last 2 joints, which are partially punctured. 



December, Port St. Elena, Lieut. Graves. 



The foregoing- Nyctelidw formed the finest group brought home by (apt. 

 King and Mr. Darwin ; those submitted to my examination amounting to 12 

 species, 8 of which were nondescript; and probably those captured by the 

 latter gentleman were equal in number and rarity. 



* 125. NVCTERINUS ABD0.MINALIS, Each. Atlas, p. 14. 



It was taken at Conception. 



