160 ILLUSTRATIONS OF FOUR SPECIES OF THE GENUS CHIROSCELIS. 
organs in situ; whilst fig. 1 c, represents the underside of the 
abdomen of the female. 
CHIROSCELIS BIFENESTRELLA, Westw. 
Transactions of the Zoological Society, vol. iii. p. 209, Plate xiv. figure 2. 
(Plate 87, fig. 3, 3a.) 
C. nigra nitida capite parum rugoso, mandibulis minus dentatis quam in precedenti, elytris 
parallelis, abdominis maculis duabus minutis rotundatis, margineque antico pronoti haud 
puncto notato, tibiis 4-posticis fere rectis, apicibus intermediarum subdilatatis. Long. 
corp. lin. 14. 
Habitat in Guinea. Mus. Nost. D. Raddon. 
CHIROSCELIS AUSTRALIS, Westw. 
(Plate 87, fig. 2, 2 a.) 
C. nigra nitida ; capite supra rugoso (vertice sub-trituberculato) prothorace lato postice punctis’ 
duobus fere ad angulos posticos impresso, elytris elongato-ovatis punctato-striatis, tibiis 
anticis palmatis, posticis 4-subrectis simplicibus, abdominis maculis duabus ventralibus fere 
semicircularibus, femoribus anticis spina basali alterisque duabus subapicalibus. Long. 
corp. fere unc. 2. 
Habitat in Africee Orient-Australis partibus interioribus. In Mus. D. Melly. 
This fine addition to the genus is unique in the collection of 
A. Melly, Esq., to whom I am indebted for an opportunity of 
presenting a figure and description of it to the entomologist. 
CHIROSCELIS PASSALOIDES, Westw. 
Transactions of the Zoological Society, vol. iii. p. 210, Plate 14, figure 3. 
C. nigra nitida ; vertice trituberculato, tuberculo postico majori, antennis crassis, pronoto sub- 
quadrato angulis rotundatis; elytris parallelis striatis ; tibiis latissimis planis anticis extus 
serratis, posticis intus versus apicem dente armatis ; abdomine subtus macula nulla instructo. 
Long. corp. lin. 193—204. 
Habitat in Guinea. Mus. Nostr. &c. D. Raddon et Savage. 
The plant represented in the plate is the Stapelia divaricata from 
Southern Africa. 
