538 Mr. Waterhougn some South American 
beset with long pale hairs, as also the femora and under 
side of the insect. Male. 
Hab. Minas Geraes, Brazil. 
7. Antichira tetradactyla, Linn. 
** Ater, lucens, levis.” ‘‘ Jamaica.” Linn., Mant. 
Plant., p. 580. 
Scarabeus tetradactylus, Linn., Mant. Plant., p. 580. 
S. tetradactylus, Linn., of the Linnean Collection. 
*“S. major, splendens,” Sloane, Hist. Jamaica, i., 
p- 205, pl. 237, f. 2. 
Cetonia tetradactyla, Faby., Syst. El. u., p. 151. 
C. tetradactyta, Fabr., of the Banksian Collection. 
Macraspis melanaria, Blanch, Cat. Mus. Paris, 1850, 
p. 206. 
** M. tristis, Casteln.,” Burm., Handb. iv., 1, p. 355. 
Burmeister says that he thinks Sloane’s insect should 
be referred to M. tristis, but he does not seem to have 
noticed that Linné himself refers to Sloane’s species in 
his description of S. tetradactyla. 
There can be no doubt that S. tetradactytus, L., is M. 
tristis, Burm., but it is possible that M. tristis, Casteln. 
(Hist. Nat. ii., p. 117) may be distinct ; there is in the 
British Museum a specimen named WM. tristis, Casteln., 
from Guadeloupe, which differs somewhat from the 
Jamaica specimens of M. tetradactyla, Linn., in having 
impressed lines on the elytra, and Castelnau’s deseription 
“elytres avec quelques stries longitudinales, lisses ”’ 
agrees with this. 
8. Antichira aterrima, Dejean, MS. 
Under this name there is, in the Museum collection, 
an example which appears to be distinct from A. tetra- 
dactyla, L. It differs in being more elongate and more 
ovate, and especially in having the thorax regularly 
narrowed from the base to the front; not in the least 
angular at the sides. 
Hab. Mexico. 
