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Conspectus sectionum specierum. 



a. Margo posterior seg-menti 1. trunci rectus. 

 Pronotum brevissimum. 

 Sectio I. Typus: Armadillo officinalis Dnm. species 1 — 10. 

 aa. Margo posterior seginenti 1. trunci utrinque plus niinusve incurvus. 

 b. Pronotum segrnentorum trunci breve vel perbreve, in seg"- 

 mento 2. ne septimam quidem partem dorsi long-itudine su- 

 perans. 



c. Antennae plerumque breviores; scapi articuli 2. et 4. sub- 

 aeque longi vel articulus 2. paulo longior, articulus 3. 

 semper minutus. 

 d. Trunci segmentum 1. margine laterali post fisso. 

 Sectio II. Typus: Armadillo clausus B.-L. species 11—50. 



dd. Trunci segmentum 1. margine laterali post integro. 

 Sectio III. Typus: Armadillo microps B.-L. species 51. 

 Sectio IV. Typus: Armadillo aculeatus B.-L. species 52. 



CO. Antennae perbreves; scapi articuli 2.-8.-4. subseque longi 

 vel 4. minimus. 

 Sectio V. Typus: Armadillo Fece B.-L. species 58—55. 



bb. Pronotum segrnentorum trunci longius, quintam vel in segmen- 

 tis posterioribus fere quartam partem dorsi longitudine es- 

 plens. 



c. Epistoma fronti concretum ; linea marginalis capitis utrinque 

 ad marginem superiorem epistomatis continua ducta. 

 Sectio VI. Typus: Armadillo murinus Br. species 56 — 75. 



cc. Epistoma a fronte sulco profundo, in medio saspe occulto, 

 discretum; linea marginalis capitis utrinque ante epistoma 

 desinens. 

 Sectio VII. Typus: Armadillo nigrinus B.-L. species 76—90. 



Sectio I. (Armadillo Br. ^ Pentheus C. Koch^ Orthonus 

 Miers). All the species of this section are mutually very 

 alike, I have before*) given a review over the species of 

 this group at that time known, here only I take Armadillo 

 hirsidus Koch out. 



All the species hereto belonging are of all the Arma- 

 dillones the most able to conglobation; the hindermost seg- 

 ments of the body are during the conglobation fitted with 



*) G. Budde-Lund: Landisopodeu aus Griecheniand. (Arch. Naturg. 

 XXV. 1896. p. 39). 



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