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Size of C. inanitus, L., but more slender, with longer 

 legs and less coarse rugosity. I have not seen the ? , 

 and the very old specimen oi' the ^ which I possess does 

 not admit of minute description ; but the species cannot 

 be mistaken. Antenna 3'2-jointed, setaceous ; according 

 to Curtis 34-jointed. Metathorax bluntly bidenticulate. 

 Abdomen somewhat wider behind, with a transverse de- 

 pression indicating the 1st suture, at which place the 

 black longitudinal stripe is interrupted in Curtis's speci- 

 men ; in mine it is continuous, emitting a short branch 

 on either side ; the apex is impressed with a shallow 

 triangular fovea. 



This fine species is not noticed by the continental 

 writers, and seems to have occurred only in England, 

 where it must be very rare or local. The locality given 

 by Curtis is Tollesbury, near Maldon, in Essex. My 

 specimen is the gift of Walker, who possessed several, 

 which are now in the Oxford Museum, numbered 334, as 

 I am informed by the Professor of Zoology. 



4. Chelonus carhonator, n. s. 



Niger, abtlomine immaculato ; palpis nigricantibus ; femoribus 

 anticis praeter apicem, mediorum apice ipso, tibiis anticis totis, 

 posterioribus medio, ferrugineis, vel tibiis posticis nigris rufo- 

 annulatis. Alae antic^e infumatse, in femiua saturatius, posticte 

 magis byalinae ; squamulte nigrse ; stigma cum costa nervisque 

 exterioribiis fuscmn ; parastigma et nerviis pnebracbialis testacea ; 

 areola radialis brevis, stigmate latior, abscissa 3tia ciirvata; alarum 

 inferiorum radius sinuatus. Clypeus discretus, punctis ad basin 

 duobus exiguis impressus ; vertex transversus, pone oculos con- 

 tractus, genis uequaquam dilatis ; fovea frontalis nitida, profiinda, 

 geminata. Maris antennae 33 — 34-, feminse 28 — 33-articulat£e, 

 crassiusculae, apicem versus sensim decrescentes. Mesothorax 

 antice fortiter punctatus, posterius striato-reticulatus. Metathorax 

 brevis, valde transversus, 4-denticulatus, medio subcarinatus, 

 reticulatus. Abdomen scnlptura solita exasperatum, carinis basali- 

 bus nuUis, maris apice integrum, obtusum, femina) magis ovatum, 

 terebra occulta. 



Black, abdomen immaculate ; palpi blacldsli ; tips of mandibles, 

 fore femora except the base, fore tibite entirely, intermediate femora 

 at the extreme apex, ferruginous ; 4 posterior tibite dull ferruginous, 

 broadly blackish at the apex and annulated with fuscous near the 

 base, or the hind tibiae black with a subferruginous ring; tarsi 

 blackish, the 4 anterior rufous at the base. Fore wings infumated. 



