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not black, but concolorous with the corium ; the second joint of the 

 antennœ is not black, but is ochraceous, with the apical incrassated 

 portion only black. » Thèse few Unes contain such misrepresenta- 

 tions of Stâl's description that they give anybody not controlling 

 the translation a quite wrong idea of Stâl's species. Stâl describes 

 the colour of his insect as « pallide griseo-flavescens » and says that 

 the apical incrassation of the second antennal joint is black, but 

 does not with a single word refer to the rest of the joint or to the 

 clavus as being black. Not knowing the différence between clava 

 (club) and clavus (the inner part of the corium) and with appa- 

 rently no idea of the meaning of Latin case-endings Distant has 

 interpreted Stâl's words « clava articuli secundi antennarum scu- 

 telloque nigris » as if Stâl had written « clavo et articulo secundo 

 antennarum ! » From this elucidation of Distant's travesty of Stâl's 

 description results that his new species of Odontorhopala proves to 

 agrée with callosa in the very points in which he says that it differs 

 from it! As Distant says that his species has the expanded latéral 

 angles of the pronotum ornamented with small black tubercles on 

 their upper surface which are continued in a more obsolète manner 

 across the disk, I suppose that his species is distinct from callosa, 

 but its other characters, if there be any, still remain to be described. 

 The rare Division Rrachytaria seems to be better represented in 

 Madagascar than in most other countries, the following forms being 

 now known from this island : 



Odontorhopala Stâl. Rhombolaparus Bergr. 



callosa Stâl. tardigradus Bergr. 



Bergrothi Dist. Paràbrachytes Dist. 



obscura Dist. , T . 



_, coloratus Dist. 



ge initiât a Bergr. 



ATHAUMASTUS SUBTEBLINEATUS n. sp. 



Supra rufotestaceus vel lateritius, dense punctatus, venis et mar- 

 gine apicali corii lœvibus, albescentibus, membrana olivacea, saepe 

 nigricante, subtus lutescenti-testaceus, vitta angusta percurrente 

 partis lateralis pectoris interdumque etiam vitta sublaterali ventris 

 fuscis, spiraculis albidis, pleuris fortiter punctatis, ventre subtiliter 

 punctulato, articulo primo et ultimo antennarum rufotestaceis, illo 

 interdum apicem versus nigrescente, articulis duobus mediis nigris, 

 rostro et pedibus rufotestaceis, tibiis posticis saepe infuscatis. 

 Caput vix punctatum, tuberculis antenniferis saltem basin versus 

 contiguis, articulo primo antennarum capite plus quam dimidio 

 longiore, secundo primo paullo longiore, tertio primo subœqui- 

 longo, quarto secundo paullo breviore, rostro médium mesosterni 



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