6 Rev. W. Kirby on Clinidium. 
Art. HI. The Characters of Clinidium, a new genus of 
Insects in the Order Coleoptera, with a Description of 
Clinidium Guildingii. By the Rev. Witttam Kiresy, 
M.A., F.R., L., and Z.S., &c. 
THE remarkable insect, of which I now offer a description to the 
Editors of the Zoological Journal, inhabits St. Vincent’s, and was taken 
in a rotten tree, in the woods of Mount St. Andrew’s in that island, by 
the Rev. Lansdown Guilding, and sent me witha valuable collection of 
insects, by that indefatigable collector, accurate painter, and learned 
describer of the zoological treasures of the Caribbean Islands and Ocean. 
This insect, like the Pseudomorpha excrucians,* presents characters 
of several different and distant tribes, so that after a very close inspec 
tion, and diligent comparative investigation of its characters, I feel un- 
certain to what modern group, larger or smaller, to refer it. As the 
specimen received from Mr. Guilding was somewhat mutilated, and 
gummed down upon a piece of card so that Icould not examine the 
under side of it, I drew up as accurate a description of it as I could, 
and sent it to that gentleman under the name here given, requesting him 
to make a figure of it from his own specimens, and to furnish such fur- 
ther characters as they might supply him with. His observations, which 
I have now received, though they throw some further light upon the 
subject, do not yet enable me to decide upon the exact station of the 
insect. I shall begin by laying down the characters of the genus as far 
as I am, at present, enabled to ascertain them. 
Genus. CLINIDIUM.T 
Labrum punctiforme, minutum. 
Mandibule subforcipate. 
Mazille nondum investigate. 
* Kirby in Linn. Trans. xiv. 98,—t. iii. f. 3. 
+ From c\udt07’, a couch, from its form. 
