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tranevorsely, and faintly sprinkled with a few black atoms. Scutelltim somewhat 

 brownish-testaceous, with a small triangular black spot near each basal angle. 

 Elytra dark testaceous, sides of the nerves thickly but irregularly punctured, 

 giving to the disc a finely crenatc appearance. Clavus : nerves very finely mar- 

 gined with dark brown, frequently interrxipted at irregular intervals ; apex of 

 the dorsal suture with a short dark brown streak, and apex of the central nerve 

 with a somewhat triangular spot of the same colour. Corium : nerves margined 

 with dark brown, in some portions very finely or almost obsolete, in others more 

 broadly and irregidarly ; immediately ■nathin the anterior margin, several short 

 dark brown spots or short streaks, more or less joined, and more or less distinct, 

 terminating in a larger elongate patch, almost in a lino with the transverse 

 nerve at the base of the anto-apical area, below the latter patch is another 

 somewhat shorter and broader ; round the apex, three others generally joined 

 interioi'ly, and forming a somewhat ^-shaped character, and a short streak below 

 the apex of the clavus ; interior and exterior cubital nerve, next the apex, generally 

 dark brown ; all the other nerves, more especially towards the apex, spotted with 

 dark bi'own. Sicrnumhlack. ie^r* brownish-testaceous. T/ii^ As : first and second 

 pairs black, apex, and a ring before the latter, brownish-testaceous ; third black, 

 upper and lower margins somewhat brownish. Tibice brownish-testaceous, apex 

 and a few spots down the anterior margin of the first and second pairs, black ; 

 tliird brown, anterior margin spotted with black, in which the brown spines are 

 set, apex black. Tarsi brownish-testaceous ; apex of the first and tliird joints 

 broadly black, second brown. 



Abdomen above black ; side margins narrowly brownish ; posterior margin of the 

 segments very narrowly yellowish ; beneath black, sides brownish-testaceous ; 

 posterior margin of the last segment in the middle testaceous ; last genital seg- 

 ment black ; external processes broad, brown, somewhat piccous towards the 

 apex, and with two rows of very fine punctures down the middle and almost 



touching each other. 



Length 2^ lines. 



I have only bgou two Hpcciincns, boili ^ , -wliifli were sent to me 

 for determination by tliu late Mr. T. J. liukl, wbo kiudly presented 

 me with one of them. 



Manor Tark, Lee, S.E. 



September, 187'1. 



DESCRirXION OF TWO NEW GENERA OF SCAIU/J.EIU.E. 

 UY U. SlIAIM', .M.J5. 



The two genera here characterized are of considerable interest, 

 owing to the structure of the ventral portion of the hind-body. Were 

 it not for a peculiarity in this respect, they would take their place in 

 the group of the Aphodiides, in the neighbourliood of ^(jhtUa. But 

 the structure of the part alluded to irf quite thai of the Trof/ides ; and 



