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scutello sulco transverso basali producto ; metanolo angulis posticis in 

 tuberculum conicum utrinque producto. Abdomen thorace multo 

 majus, supra striolis impressis omnino obsitum; segmentis secundo 

 et tertio sulco basali punctato notatis, tertio et quarto utrinque 

 ad angulos posticos in spinam porreclam productis; segmento 

 apicali mucronato, lateribus oblique marginatis. Pedes longi graciles 

 fulvi. AUe basi flavœ, apice cinerascentes ; puncto nigro ad apicem 

 venie subcostalis ante stigma , hoc flavo , nubila cinerea transversa 

 mediana. 



Genus CENOCŒLIUS Hal. 



CenocœiiMS Haliday, M.S. in Westwood, Gen, syn. Brit. ins. 

 (in Mod. classi/. lus. I p. 62; Brulle, Hist. nat. ins. Ihjmén. IV 

 p. 481; Smith, ÌSom. Brit. Hi/men. pt. XIII p. 27 and Proc. 

 Linn. soc. Zool. vol. VI p. 66 ; Snellen van Vollenhoven , Schetsen 

 Hjjìnenoiìt. tab. VI, fig. 24. 



Syn. Capitonius, Brulle, Hist. nat. ins. Hj/men. IV p. 54-4. 



Syn. Aulacodus, Cresson, Proc. Ent. soc. PUladelph. vol. IV 

 (1865) p. 8. 



The genus Capitonins of Brulle was established upon an elegant 

 species from Brazil in the collection of the Jardin des plantes in 

 Paris , where I examined and made a drawing of the unique type 

 in 1852. The genus was placed by Brulle in the family Evanii 

 and regarded as allied to the genus AmIücus. The antennœ were 

 described as 13-jointed, but a careful examination enabled me to 

 perceive that these organs were mutilated , a perfect specimen in 

 the Hopeian collection shewing them to be twice the length of 

 the mutilated antennae of the typical Parisian individual. 



The following is the description of the genus Capitonius^ as 

 given by Brulle Hist. nat. ins. Hpnénopt. IV p. 544: 



«Ge groupe est très-voisin des Aulacus, dont il diffère tout 

 d'abord par la troisième discoidale qui n'est pas fermée. En outre 

 sa tête presque cubique et creusée sur la vertex d'une large fos- 

 sette pour recevoir les antennes, fossette dans laquelle se trouve 

 un des ocelles. Sa face large , avec la bouche rejetée tout à fait en 



