120 = Mr. Westwood on a new Species of Longicorn Beetle. 
great group, rather than in the position assigned to them by Leconte 
and Thomson, will depend upon a general arrangement of the 
Pseudotetramerous insects, and must doubtless be influenced by the 
characters of the preparatory state of the different groups, especially 
such as form the connecting links between the different families. 
Mieports*, n. g. 
Genus novum, Sypilo proximum, differt clypeo transverso, mandibulis 
intus 1-dentatis, et antennis subbrevibus. 
Corpus oblongum, subparallelum, subcylindricum. Caput subdeclive, me- 
diocre ; clypeus transversus, brevis, fere recte truncatus. Labrum trans- 
versum, ciliatum. Mandibule deflexee, falciformes, apice acuto, intus 
prope medium dente parvo conico armatee. Mazille parvee, ore clauso 
omnino obtecte, transverse incidentes. Palpi mazillares sublongi, 4- 
articulati, simplices, articulis longitudine fere eequalibus, ultimo arti- 
culo truncato. Mentum breve, transversum, angulis lateralibus rotun- 
datis. Zabiwm haud porrectum, mento absconditum. Palpi labiales 
fere longitudine maxillaribus eequales, graciles, articulo 35tio reliquis 
multo breviore elongato-ovali. Antenne dimidio corporis vix longiores, 
11-articulatze, articulo 2nde minuto, 3tic yix 4tum longitudine excedente, 
hoc et reliquis ad angulum internum paulo acute productis. 
Prothorax capite major et latior, lateribus rotundatis marginatis convexus. 
Prosternum parum elevatum, postice truncatum, ultra coxas anticas 
haud productum. Mesosternum simplex, angustum, impressione media 
in parte antica notatum. Pedes mediocres, tibiis omnibus ad apicem 
externum in spinam productis, apice truncato denticulato; tars? arti- 
culis tribus basalibus subtus longe setosis, 2ndo et Stio triangularibus 
haud bilobatis, 4to distincto nodiformi. Elytra oblonga, parallela, apice 
rotundata. 
Species unica Brasiliensis. 
Migdolus Fryanus, 1. sp. 
M. niger, nitidus, piceo parum tinctus punctatissimus ; capite in medio 
inter oculos subimpresso; pronoto punctis 4 discoidalibus; elytris 
punctato-granulosis, punctis rivulosis; corpore infra nitido, punctato, 
luteo setoso, lateribus metasterni valde setosis. 
Long. corp. lin. 14, cap. lin. 13, proth. lin. 4, elytr. lin, 83. 
Habitat in Brasilia prope Rio Janeiro (D. Fry). 
Ex individuo unico (foemineo ?) descriptum. 
Plate VIL. fig. 1. Miapotus Fryanus, of the natural size. 
la. The clypeus and mandibles; 14, The mentum and palpi én situ ; 
le. Prosternum; 1d. Same, with the anterior coxa seen sideways; 
le. Mesosternum impressed in front; 1f Apex of tibia and tarsus; 
lg. Antenna. 
* Migdol, locus prope terminos Egypti ad mare rubrum. 
