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description ,of Curtis as translated into German by Grbben with his 

 own specimens, and has made some good criticisms upon the charac- 

 ter of the description in its German dress, and without having seen 

 the English of Curtis, has actually translated the doubtful passages 

 better than Grbben. All the objections which he makes to the de- 

 scription fall to the ground when the original of Curtis is used. 



A CEJjfcJUY OF* OKtHOI^tKRA. DeCADEI II. — LoCtJsfARLE. 



Stalia nov. gen. 

 Head of excessive size, very tumid, smooth, with no prominence 

 excepting the rather irregular raised edges of the antennal sockets, in 

 the region of which the head is slightly depressed ; labrum very large, 

 circular; last joint of maxillary palpi very slender, obconical, nearly 

 as long as the two preceding joints combined ; first joint of antennEe 

 cylindrical, scarcely depressed, nearly twice as long as broad ; second 



