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CaNTHAROPLATYS FELDERI, Westw. 
C. piceo-niger, subopacus; mandibulis subtrigono-falcatis, dente valido intus 
prope basin armatis; antennis latitudinem capitis longitudine vix superanti- 
bus ; capite et pronoto punctatissimis, hujus disco magis levi et subirregulari, 
utringue circulariter subimpresso; capitis vertice longitudinaliter canalicu- 
lato; pronoto transverso, postice latiori, angulis posticis fere rectangulariter 
incisis ; elytris minute cicatricosis, punctisque minutis inter cicatrices dispo- 
sitis, costis 3 longitudinalibus ordinariis vix distinctis ; tibiis anticis extus in 
medio 2- vel 3-denticulatis, apice dente lato armatis, 4 posticis extus denticu- 
latis ; femoribus subtus castaneis; metasterno fulvo velutino sericante, disco 
crebre punctatissimo. 
Long. corp. lin. 17; mandib. lin. 2. 
Habitat in Africa, apud fluv. “ White Nile.” Dom. Feldero captus, et nomine 
ejus honorato inscriptus. 
Sub-genus novum CanrHARocTENus, Westw. 
Cantharocnemidi proximum ; differt prothorace magis cylindrico, antennis duplo 
longioribus, 18-articulatis, articulis duplo pectinatis, pedibusque longioribus. 
CanTHAROCTENUs BurcHetiu, Westw. 
C. piceo-castaneus, nitidus ; prothorace cylindrico ; mandibulis capitis longitudine, 
falcatis, apice valde oblique truncatis, dente acuto apicali, altero subapicali 
interno, basi etiam intus dente parvo conico nigro armatis ; antennarum arti- 
culis omnibus (2 basalibus exceptis) infra ad basin dentibus 2 armatis, apice 
infra in lobum latum tenuem deflexum producto, cujus margo incisus dentes 
2 alios simulat (inde antenne singule 64 spinas habere videntur) ; capitis 
vertice in medio canali longitudinali tenui instructo ; prothorace nitido, an- 
gulis anticis rotundatis, posticis oblique truncatis, lateribus pone medium 
spina parva armatis, disco nitido, utrinque pone medium tuberculo parum 
eminente subnotato; elytris prothorace multo latioribus, nitidis, punctatissi- 
mis, sutura striolisque 2 longitudinalibus levibus vix distinctis notatis; meta- 
thorace subtus fulvo dense hirto ; tibiis anticis planis, extus in medium spinis 
2 denticulisque nonnullis minutis armatis, apiceque extus in spinam latam 
producto, 4 posticis extus denticulatis. 
Long. corp. lin. 13; mandib. lin. 2. 
Habitat “ Damara Land” Africe merid. Dom. Andersson captus. In Mus. 
Hopeiano Oxoniz. 
Papers read. 
Mr. W. C. Hewitson communicated a further instalment of his ‘‘ Descriptions of 
new Hesperidz,” including twenty-three species of the genus Hesperia. . 
The President read a paper entitled “ A List of the Longicornia collected by the 
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late Mr. P. Bouchard at Santa Marta.” The species were upwards of fifty in number, 
and four new genera were characterized. 
