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2. Cyphaleus iopterus. Differs in liaving the elytra violet-colour- 

 ed. Length 10 lines. Inhabits New Holland, and is in Mr. Hope's 

 cabinet. (Id. i. 43). 



3. Cyphaleus rugoms. Black and rugose. Length 11 lines. In- 

 habits New Holland, and is in Mr. Hope's cabinet. Helops ? rugosus^ 

 G. R. Gray in Griffiths' An. King. Ins. pi. 80, fig. 5. Helops aterri- 

 mus, G. H. Gray in ditto, pi. 74, fig. 5 (details), and part 31, p. 22. 

 (Id. i. 43). 



4. CJtartopteryx Childrenii. In the genus Chartopteryx the anten- 

 nae are longer than the head and prothorax together, the four apical 

 joints short and rather stouter than the rest : the mandibles are stout, 

 curv^ed, sharp-pointed and bifid within the apex, and have a membra- 

 nous process on the inner ed^^e : parts of the maxillae and the labi- 

 palpi nearly as in Cyphaleus : prothorax flattened, rather wider behind, 

 the sides nearly straight : elytra rather wider than prothorax at their 

 base and increasing in width posteriorly, the apex is acute : legs long 

 and slender. The species is nigro-seneous and shining ; the elytra 

 brighter than the rest, and divided posteriorly into areas of various 

 forms. Length 8 lines. Inhabits New Holland, and is in the cabinet 

 of Mr. Hope. (Id. i. 44). 



5. Hemicyclus grandis. Body hemispherical and smooth : anten- 

 nae scarcely longer than the head and prothorax, incrassated at the 

 apex : parts of the mouth as in the last : elytra very large, rounded, 

 gibbous and smooth. The species is nigro-aeneous : the elytra metal- 

 lic purple on the back, the sides inclining to greenish : legs and an- 

 tennae black. Length 7^ lines. Inhabits New Holland, and is in the 

 cabinet of Mr. Hope. (Id. i. 44). 



6. Hemicyclus metallicus. Black, very shining : elytra purple on 

 the back : pro- and mesotarsi rather dilated : perhaps the male of the 

 preceding. Length 5i lines. Inhabits New Holland, and is in the 

 cabinet of Mr. Hope. (Id. i. 44). 



7. Lepispilus sulcicoUis. Body oblong-ovate : antennae longer than 

 the prothorax, externally incrassated : mandibles tenuinating in an 

 obtuse tooth, and furnished on the inner edge with a ciliated mem- 

 brane : the lacinia of the maxillae is without a hook, and the terminal 

 joint of the maxipalpi scarcely securiform : the prothorax is longitu- 

 dinally furrowed, rounded at the sides, and its posterior angles acute : 

 elytra elongate-ovate : tibiae somewhat curved, claws long. The spe- 

 cies is black, the elytra inclining to purple-brown, and each having a 

 wliitish villous spot about the middle of the lateral margin. Length 7 



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