8 Rev. W. Kirby on Clinidiuim. 
and ascertain whether the lower lobe is unguiform, and the upper palpi- 
form, which would decide the question, andas the other characters lead to 
other groups, it would be rash to affirm that it belongs to any of these 
tribes. Indeed its short, rather thick, legs, and its short tarsiare quite un- 
like these limbs in the predaceous Beetles, and shew that it is not swift 
of foot; if it has any eyes, likewise, which seems very doubtful, they 
are not prominent, as in the Eutrechina, and the antenne are quite dis- 
similar. 
Its aspect is that of a heteromerous beetle, belonging either to Latreille’s 
Melasoma, or his Taxicornes, but we soon discover a neck which would 
lead us to the Trachelides, of which, however, it exhibits no other cha- 
racter; and indeed when we examine the structure of its antenne, the 
terminal joint of its palpi, and its prothorax, we see clearly that it can 
belong to no tribe of that, as it now stands, artificial section. 
It exhibits also some general resemblance to the Rhynchophorous genus 
Brentus, which, I believe, isalsoa timber devourer, but it seems to me still 
nearer to Cucujus, Fab., as, for instance, Cuc. rufus, which has a pedun- 
culated head, and another North American species, which, like Clinidium, 
is pentamerous. It has not, however, the depressed body of Cucujus ; 
its head, prothorax, and antenne, differ, and no other coleopterous in- 
sect yet known, agrees with it in the absence of reticulated eyes : so that 
it is the only known individual that strictly verifies the old proverb, ‘ As 
“* blind as a beetle.”’ 
Till we know how itis circumstanced with respect to its maxille and 
palpi we cannot decide with confidence upon its natural station. 
CLINIDIUM GUILDINGII. 
Long. Corp. Lin. 3. 
Hab. in Insula Caribbea St. Vincent, in arbore putrescenti. 
Desc. Corpus lineare, supra partibus elevatis glaberrimis nitidissi 
mis, aterrimis ; depressis vero plerumque subtomentosis, opacis, sub- 
cinereis. Caput facie plagis elevatis septem ; intermedia rhomboidea, vel 
ex rhomboideo lanceolata, cum aliis duabus parvis triangularibus anterius 
ordinata ; lateralibus internis quadrato-oblongis, externis oculos simulan- 
