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being dilated as in the males of the genus Promecoderus. 

 Whether this is peculiar to the present species, or is a character 

 of the group, cannot be properly ascertained until more speci- 

 mens -of the vai'ious species of this extremely rare genus can be 

 found. 



While this species thus seems to connect the genus Gnathoxijs 

 with the Feroniida by the genus Promecoderus ; it is interest- 

 ing to find that we have on the other hand a species of Care- 

 nmn, which seems to form a link between that genus and 

 GnathoxuS. In the convex drooping head, convex thorax, and 

 form of elytra, the Garemmi variulosum appi'oaches decidedly to 

 the Gnatlioxys inslgnitus described in this Paper, and if to this 

 we add the strongly securiform last joint of the palpi in the 

 last named species, and the slightly palmated tridentate fore 

 tibiae of G. variolos'um, we have an affinity sufficiently evident. 



