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beneath is dark castaneous, glossy, almost impunctate, with the 

 abdomen black. 



PI. XII. fig. 1. The insect somewhat magnified; la, the left side of the head 

 with the clypeus; 16, the extremity of the right mandible j Ic, the 

 mentum, with the four palpi in situ. — J. O. W.] 



Cladognathus decipiens ? , Parry. (PI. IV. fig. 4.) 

 C. niger, nitidus ; elytris fusco-castaneis, marginibus vitta 

 flava latiuscula notatis ; capite parvo, antice impresso, tenuis- 

 sime punctato ; prothorace lateribus rotundatis, dorso postice 

 vitrinque foveolato ; elytris laevibus ; tibiis anticis angustis, 

 extus crenulatis, quatuor posticis unidentatis, tarsis subtus 

 setosis. 

 Long. Corp. unc. 1. 

 Hab. Malabar. 



The only example of this species with which I am acquainted is 

 in the cabinet of Count Mniszech. In the rich collection of the 

 Leyden Museum there exists an undescribed $ specimen, the 

 general sculpture of which induces me to refer it to the present 

 species ; but the habitat not being given, and the fact that the head 

 affixed to the specimen has the appearance of belonging to a 

 different species, prevent me from speaking with greater certainty 

 as to their identity. 



Cladognathus dorsalis, Erichson, Act. Acad. Caesar. 

 Leopold. V. 16, Suppl. tab. 37, fig. 6. 



^ (var. max), C. castaneus, plagd magna laevissimd prope 

 suturam ; corpore subtus, antennis, mandibulis, pedibusque 

 nigro-piceis. 

 Rufo-castaneus, nitidus ; capite magno, antice emarginato, mar- 

 gine elevato ; mandibulis capite cum prothorace paulo lon- 

 gioribus, falcatis, depressis, intus irregulariter armatis, apici- 

 bus curvatis ; prothorace lateribus fere rectis, subopacis, 

 angulis posticis paulo emarginatis, maculd utrinque nigra 

 indistincta versus angulos posticos, dorso nitido ; elytris dorso 

 Isevissimo, lateribus subopacis ; tibiis anticis rectis, denticulis 

 4 vel 5 parvis instructis, posticis quatuor inermibus. 

 Long. Corp. unc. ], lin. 5 ; mandib. lin. 7. 

 Erichson (1. c.) described the female only, the male being appa- 

 rently unknown to him. Dr. Burmeister, Handb. d. Ent. v. 370, 

 has referred L. cavifrons (Burm. MS.), Hope, Cat. p. 13, to the 

 above described species ; this is undoubtedly an error. Neither 



