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NEW GENERA AND SPECIES 



furnished with a large appendage arising at the base of the man- 

 dible, and extending to more than two-thirds its whole length, 

 armed along its inner edge with very sharp deflexed teeth : the 

 inner lobe of the maxillae (Fig. d 3) slender, very acute at the tip, 

 with several sharp teeth above the middle : the outer lobe (Fig. 

 d 2) very slender, furnished at its apex with a series of strong 

 bristles : head nutant, produced in front : eyes moderate : legs 

 rather short and strong : tarsi (Figs, e & f) 3-jointed, the two 

 basal joints rather short, and the terminal as long as both the 

 others together, furnished at its extremity with an erect tuft of 

 long bristles, and another tuft covering the claws, which are long 

 and slender, with a tooth in the middle : thorax and elytra trans- 

 verse : scutellum broad, short and rounded, covered by the poste- 

 rior margin of the thorax : abdomen conic, obtuse, with two very 

 large and strong styles at the apex. 



Sp. 1. Dei. fuscatus, (Fig. 2.) 



Deep black, thickly clothed with a short sericeous pubescence : head 

 large and broad : thorax transverse, narrowed in front, with the 

 anterior angles rounded, and the posterior acute : elytra very 

 short, with the posterior margin obliquely truncate towards the 

 suture : abdomen obtuse, all the segments except the last deeply 

 margined, with their posterior angles produced : legs, palpi, and 

 antennae black : tarsi and knees testaceous. (Long. corp. 2 lin.) 



Taken at Weston; first in 1835, and subsequently at the 

 end of May and beginning of June 1836-7. 



Genus. — Centroglossa, Matthcics. 



