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found dead, and were quite imperfect ; and as all of them were 

 taken to India for a couple of years by my nephew, F. W. 

 Hutton, Esq. (who collected them at St. Vincent, on his passage 

 to Calcutta, in June 1857), they have at last reached me in such 

 a mutilated state, that I have been quite unable to observe their 

 (entirely destroyed) palpi. The other parts of their mouth, 

 however, I have succeeded in mounting for the microscope ; and 

 since the palpi of the whole of these immediate Heteromerous 

 groups are moditied within very narrow limits, they are not very 

 important ; so that the remaining details (described above) are 

 abundantly sufficient for every generic purpose. 



Concerning the affinities of this curious genus, I am more 

 than content to abide by the opinion of Prof. Lacordaire, whose 

 late admirable volume on the genera of the Heteromera must of 

 necessity give a weight to his judgment which few will be in- 

 clined to dispute. In reply to a communication from me on the 

 subject, he writes as follows : — 



" Je n'ai rien vu de pareil a cet insecte, qui est assez embar- 

 rassant. C'est evidemment un Opatride, mais il ne rentre bien 

 dans aucun des groupes que j^ai etablis parmi ces derniers. 

 Tout bien considere, c'est dans celui des Stizopides qu'il va le 

 mieux, et je le mettrais a cote et k la suite des Ccedius." 



23. Eremonomus Huttoni, n. sp. 



E. rufo-ferrugineus, subnitidus et setulis brevibus demissis cinereis 

 irroratus ; capita prothoraceque sat confertim granulato-asperatis ; 

 elytris obsolete nigrescenti-striatis (striis hand impressis), minutis- 

 sime et parcius granulato-asperatis, versus humeros rotundatis et 

 per limbum longissime sed parce ciliatis ; pedibus vix obscurioribus. 



Long. Corp. lin. 2. 



The remarkable surface of this singular insect, which is xa\- 

 nxxtely (/I'anulate (rather than punctate), and is obsoletely striated 

 on the elytra with somewhat darker hut unimpressedlines, removes 

 it from everything with which I am acquainted ; whilst the 

 wonderful structure of its dilated anterior tibi?e, which are eroded 

 (or irregularly eaten-out) along their external mai'gin, so as to 

 be armed with two or three misshapen subdentiform spinulose 

 humps, is not the less anomalous. Its clypeus is much expanded 

 laterally, just in front of the eyes; and the outer margin of its 

 elytra is beset with long and erect hairs, in exactly the same 

 manner as we observe in most of the Phalerice. As already 

 stated in the preliminary notes to this paper, it was taken at 

 St. Vincent, on the 11th of June, 1857, by my nephew, E. W. 

 Hutton, Esq., to whom I have much pleasure in dedicating the 

 species. It was found " in the valley near the town, under a low 

 creeping plant ;" and in the proper season it must evidently be 



