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the club itself, formed by the terminal three, is comparatively well 
defined ; in the ultimate articulation of their maxillary palpi being 
ovate, instead of securiform; in their totally different lower lip; 
and, inter alia, in the structure of their fore-legs,—which have the 
tibize immensely dilated and compressed, and armed at their inner 
apex with two gigantic spurs (one of which however is more enor- 
mously developed than the other), and the tarsi extremely short and 
subconical. Mr. Melly’s specimen is, I believe, from Mediterranean 
latitudes,—probably from either Sicily or Egypt. 
443. Autocera laticeps, n. sp. (fig. 2). 
A. fusco-brunnea dense squamosa, capite postice lato, prothorace 
lato basin versus angustiore, in disco bifoveolato, elytris profunde 
striato-punctatis, interstitiis alternis elevatis, antennis rufo-ferru- 
gineis. 
Long. corp. lin. 14. 
A, narrow and sublinear, piceous and densely clothed with dull rusty - 
brown scales, but free from pubescence. Head and prothorax 
beset with rather large granules (perceptible only, however, when 
the surface is denuded of its scales): the former wide, and sud- 
denly truncated immediately behind the eyes (which are very pro- 
minent) ; and with the forehead expanded at the sides, a little in 
front of the eyes, where it is somewhat angular: the latter very’ 
wide in front (where it is broader than the head), but a little nar- 
rowed posteriorly ; with a deep central channel, and a deep fovea 
on either side of its disk. /ytra with the sides parallel; deeply 
striate-punctate ; and with the alternate interstices raised. Limbs 
short and robust, the antenne (which are bright rufo-ferruginous) 
being paler than the legs. The anterior tibie greatly dilated and 
flattened, but with the outer edge scarcely crenulated. 
Closely allied to the (Sicilian ?) species already alluded to under 
the name of Autocera anticipes, but with the head wider along its 
hinder margin,—the result apparently however of the eyes being 
larger and more prominent, and so extending beyond the dilated 
edges of the forehead (which are, themselves, more angular above 
the insertion of the antenne), Its prothorax also is less narrowed 
posteriorly than in that insect, and less sinuated (or produced) at the 
base, in front of the scutellum ; and its anterior tibie are less per- 
ceptibly serrated externally, and have their outer angle obtuse and 
entire,—instead of being cleft into (or surmounted by) two spinules. 
A single specimen (now in the British Museum) was detected by 
myself on the ascent from Santa Cruz to 8. Antonio da Serra (in the 
east of Madeira proper), on the 11th of June 1855,—the only one 
which has hitherto come under my observation. 
