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This will probably be regarded as tlie type of a subgeniis, having 

 long antenncE with a slightly incrassated 3-jointed clava, legs com- 

 paratively long, narrow tarsi, and the posterior part of the thorax 

 contracted. 



Opii-us auripennis. Op. ater ; thorace nigro ; elytris auratit 

 nitidissimis ; pedibus nigricantihus. 



Long. 7 lin. ; lat. 2. 



J'ar. thorace lubro, antennis pedibusąue rufescenlibus, 



Hab. in Brasilia. (Rio Janeiro.) 



The three lašt joints of the antenno; in this insect difFer frona those 

 of the typical Opili. The ninth and tenth are trigonate, with a 

 deep incision, and the eleventh is ovate, depressed ; in Opilus, the 

 ninth and tenth are trigonate, and the eleventh is obliąuely trun- 

 cate. The tarsi are also 4-jointed, the basai articulation of those 

 of the typical Opili being in this insect wanting. On these accounts 

 it may be regarded as the type of a new sobgenus. 



CoPTouHiNA, n. g. Copridi affine. 



AnlenncE clavato-lamellatae. Clt/peus profundissime incisus. Cor- 

 pus magnum. Eli/tra ad latera anticė sinuata. 



CoPTORHiNA Africana. Copt. nigra ; clypeo profundc inciso ; 



thorace anticė retiiso, postice prominentid latd ; elytris tenuissimi 



slriato-punctatis. 

 Long. 8 lin. (dentibus clypei inclusis); lat. 5. 

 Hab. in Sierra Leone. 



CoPTORHiNA Klugii. Copt. iitgra ; clypeo profunde inciso, den- 

 tibus porrectis, subręflexis ; prominentid thoracis medid subfoveo- 

 latd. 



Long. 6 lin. ; lat. 4. 



Hab. ad Caput Bonae Spei. 



PHa;NOMERis, n. g. Anonialae afEne. 



^w<fnH^ 9-articulatae, articuiis tribus ultimis capitulum rotundum 

 formantibus. Palpi mazillares articulo extimo ovato-elongato ad 

 apicem conico. Corpus ovato-elongatum. Caput oblongiusculum. 

 Thorax longitudine latitudini inaequalis. Elytra abdomine breviora. 

 Femora incrassata, externe rotundata. 



Ph^enomeris MAGNiFicA. Phfcn. viridis ; capite uigro ; thorace 

 aurato ; elytris striato-punclatis, igne micantibus ; pedibus bico- 

 loribns. 



Long. 7 lin. ; lat. 3. 



Hab. in Africa. (Soudan.) 



Macronata tetraspilota. Macr. nigro-olivacea, punctata ; 

 thoracis lateribus pallide stramineis ; elytris olivaceis, maculd 

 niedid irreguluri alterdgue apicali minore notafis. 



Long. 8 lin. 3 lat. 4;.. 



Hab, in India Orientnli circa Pocna, 



