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beneath is dark castaneous, glossy, almost impunctate, with the 
abdomen black. 
Pl. XII. fig. 1. The insect somewhat magnified; la, the left side of the head 
with the clypeus; 1b, the extremity of the right mandible; lc, the 
mentum, with the four palpi in situ——J. O. W.] 
CLapoGNATHUs DEcIPIENS @, Parry. (PI. IV. fig. 4.) 
C. niger, nitidus; elytris fusco-castaneis, marginibus vitta 
flava latiuscula notatis ; capite parvo, antice impresso, tenuis- 
sime punctato; prothorace lateribus rotundatis, dorso postice 
utrinque foveolato; elytris levibus; tibiis anticis angustis, 
extus crenulatis, quatuor posticis unidentatis, tarsis subtus 
setosis. 
Long. corp. unc. 1, 
Hab. Malabar. 
The only example of this species with which I am acquainted is 
in the cabinet of Count Mniszech. In the rich collection of the 
Leyden Museum there exists an undescribed ¢ specimen, the 
general sculpture of which induces me to refer it to the present 
species ; but the habitat not being given, and the fact that the head 
affixed to the specimen has the appearance of belonging to a 
different species, prevent me from speaking with greater certainty 
as to their identity. 
CLADOGNATHUs DORSALIS, Erichson, Act. Acad. Cesar. 
Leopold. v. 16, Suppl. tab. 37, fig. 6. 
é (var. max). C. castaneus, plagA magn4 levissim4 prope 
suturam; corpore subtus, antennis, mandibulis, pedibusque 
nigro-piceis. 
Rufo-castaneus, nitidus ; capite magno, antice emarginato, mar- 
gine elevato; mandibulis capite cum prothorace paulo lon- 
gioribus, falcatis, depressis, intus irregulariter armatis, apici- 
bus curvatis ; prothorace lateribus fere rectis, subopacis, 
angulis posticis paulo emarginatis, macul4 utrinque nigra 
indistincta versus angulos posticos, dorso nitido; elytris dorso 
lzevissimo, lateribus subopacis; tibiis anticis rectis, denticulis 
4 vel 5 parvis instructis, posticis quatuor inermibus, 
Long. corp. unc. 1, lin. 5; mandib. lin. 7. 
Erichson (1. c.) described the female only, the male being appa- 
rently unknown to him. Dr. Burmeister, Handb. d, Ent. v. 370, 
has referred L. cavifrons (Burm. MS.), Hope, Cat. p. 13, to the 
above described species; this is undoubtedly an error, Neither 
