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over the entire body of T. Jlammulatus will readily serve to 

 distinguish them. 



Belonging to a family very difficult to investigate satisfac- 

 torily, and having an opportunity last summer to send it to 

 Mr. Sclater, I did so, asking his opinion; he wrote that it 

 was unknown to him, hence I have no hesitation in describ- 

 iusf it as new. 



