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IV. Descriptions of some Exotic Lamellicorn Beetles. 

 By J. O. Westwood, M.A., F.L.S., &c. 



[Read Xovember 7th, 1S77.] 



(Plates I. and II.) 



Family CETOXIID.E. 



Subfamily Trichiides. 



Genus Calometopus, Blancliard. 



Catal. de la Coll. Entomologique d. Mus. d'hist. nat. 

 Paris, t. i. 1850, p. 43 ; Lacordaire, Hist. n. Col. iii. 

 p. 5QQ. 



Calometopus Ni/asscB. (PI. I. fig. 1.) 



Fern. — Xiger punctatus, capitis clypeo profnnde inciso, 

 pronoto transverse-ovali, nigro, macula utrinque parva 

 luteo-setosa ad angulos anticos, alterisque duabus majori- 

 bus angulos posticos occupantibus ; elytris nigris, disco 

 irregulariter glauco, nigro parce punctate, maculis duabus 

 folvis ovalibus prope scutellum nigro lineatis ; maculisque 

 duabus glaucis prope apicem ; lateribus elytrorum sutu- 

 raque acute carinatis ; segmentis detectis aljdominis late- 

 raliter albo maculatis, propygidio lineis duabus transversis 

 albis ; pygidio obscure rufo, opaco, macida cuneata apicali 

 albo-setosa ; pedibus nigris ; tibiis posticis apice digitatis : 

 corpore infra nigro, nitido ; lateribus metasterni et ab- 

 dominis parum vermicidatis ; setisque griseis parum ves- 

 titis, segmentis 2 et 3 ventralibus utrinque transversim 

 griseo subfasciatis. 



(Marem non vidi.) 



Long. Corp. lin. 7^. 



Habitat Xyassa, Africa? interioris. In Mus. Britann. 

 et Higgins. 



Note. — The mandibles are entire at the tip, having a 

 short setose transverse tooth or spine near the base of the 

 inner margin (fig. lo). The maxilla? are unarmed on 

 the inner margin, but are furnished with a long densely 

 hairy simple terminal lobe. The maxillary palpi ivere 

 wanting in the specimen examined (fig. \b). The meu- 



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