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Head of $ smooth, with a few scattered punctures near the eye; 

 mandibles of the same length as the head, acute at the apex, in 

 the middle with a projecting lobe, the edge of which is crenulated ; 

 the clypeus wider than in the $ , slightly emarginate ; the pro- 

 thorax is smooth, darker than the elytra, slightly convex, pos- 

 terior angles rounded ; elytra smooth, aeneous, with a row of 

 minute punctures near the suture, and parallel with it an oblique 

 yellow line near the apex ; the femora of the four posterior legs 

 on the underside with a small yellow patch ; the anterior tibiae 

 irregularly crenulated externally with four or five prominent 

 tubercles ; the intermediate are armed with a small spine, the pos- 

 terior unarmed. The $ is broader and more convex than the $, 

 the head is distinctly punctured, with two slight elevations on its 

 surface ; mandibles short and acute, with a distinct tooth in the 

 middle ; the prothorax is very smooth on the disc, distinctly 

 punctured on the sides as well as upon the anterior and posterior 

 margins, with the hinder angles rounded. Scutellum with a few 

 scattered punctures ; elytra more convex than in the $, with the 

 sides parallel, smooth in the centre, but punctured at the base, 

 lateral margins and apex, and with a small, yellow, nearly round 

 spot near the apex. The fore tibiae are crenulated, with four or 

 five small prominent tubercles, the four posterior are armed with 

 a small spine near the centre, and as in the $ the four posterior 

 femora have a small fulvous patch on the underside. 



Cladognathus modestus $y Parry (? ignota). 

 (PI. XII. fig. 1.) 



C. brunneo-castaneus vel nigro-piceus, prothoracis et elytrorum 

 lateribus fulvis ; capite, mandibuiis, tarsis, antennisque 

 nigris ; capite transverso, parvo, tenuissime granuloso, antice 

 depresso, paulo emarginato, pone oculos obtuse angulato ; 

 mandibuiis gracilibus, capite paulo longioribus, curvatis, 

 rugoso-punctatis, ante medium dente interno obtuso sub- 

 erecto armatis, apicibus dilatatis, bidentatis ; prothorace 

 angulis anticis rotundatis posticisque obliquis, minute gra- 

 nuloso, disco nitido ; elytris castaneis, nitidis, marginibus 

 latis luteis, subopacis ; corpore infra nigro-rufescente ; tibiis 

 anticis extus serrulatis, 4 posticis inermibus. 



Long. Corp. lin. 10 ; mandib. lin. 2. 



Hab. in Africa occ. tropicali. Coll, Parry. Specimen unicum. 



The general appearance of this new species allies it closely to 

 C.faber, Thomson, from which, however, it may readily be dis- 



