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dilated externally near the base, and abruptly narrowed towards the 
tips ; they are horizontal, and the apex of each is bifurcated. The 
pal])! are elongated and filiform. The leaflets of the antennae are 
rather short, not longer than the basal joint, and are clothed with 
longish hairs. The head, thorax, and elytra are covered with round 
punctures or fovese, and short brownish hair-scales ; on the thorax 
there is a smooth dorsal line, and a few irregular smooth spots ; the 
elytra have also a few short linear irregular smooth spaces, and several 
small white spots formed of fascicles of longer hair-scales ; six of these 
spots are more conspicuous, and are arranged in two longitudinal 
rows on each elytron. The thorax is much narrowed anteriorly, and 
the sides are rounded. The external edges of the tibiae are serrated ; 
the fore and middle tibiae have, besides, an acute tooth below the 
middle, and the fore tibiae a recurved apical tooth. 
One example. Mr. Fereday has also sent many specimens ( c? ? ) 
of the rare Ceratognathus Helotoides, Thorns., and Lissotes reticulatus, 
Westw., both belonging to the Lucanidce. 
Sphallax, nov. gen. (Garabidcs). 
Facies of Peryphus (Bembidiidcs) ; body depressed, head and 
thorax scarcely half the width of the elytra, the former ovate, not con- 
tracted behind ; eyes scarcely prominent ; the thorax small, narrow, 
cordate. Labrum transverse, slightly emarginate in the middle. 
Mandibles moderately short, curved and acute. Meutum with a bifid 
tooth in the middle of the emargination, lateral lobes roumled outwards, 
and terminating each in a longish acute spine. Ligula elongate, 
lanceolate, pointed, horny, glossy, and convex, wholly detached from 
its paraglossae, which are shorter than it, and curved inwards. Palpi 
rather short and stout ; terminal joints considerably longer than the 
penultimates, obtusely pointed. Antennae moderately short, filiform ; 
third joint the longest, second very short. Legs moderately short and 
slender ; all the tibiae sulcated above and beneath ; anterior tibiae 
deeply notched. Anterior tarsi, in the ^, with four joints mode- 
rately dilated, triangular ; clothed beneath with a dense brush of 
short pale hairs. Presternum not produced; mesosternum concave; 
epimera of the mesosternum much widened externally, and not reaching 
the socket internally. Elytra obliquely truncated, without sinuation. 
The assemblage of characters as above indicated show that this 
curious little Carabide is not closely allied to any known genus or sub- 
family. The integuments are quite glabrous, and forbid its association 
