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Hab. Wake N’Gami.” 
This species is unknown to me. I am, however, informed by Mr. 
‘Waterhouse that it is ‘‘ very near Periclitopa varicornis. but that it 
has yellow antennz and abdomen, and the elytra are not quite so 
finely sculptured.” 
Gen. CLITOPA, Erichs., 
Nat. Ins., iil., 1847, p. 653. 
Male: Mentum sub-orbicular or rounded laterally, incised and 
projecting along the base of the ligular part and separated from it by 
a plain suture, the ligular part is angular at the base, rounded 
laterally and attenuated towards the apex which is semicircular, 
the labial palpi are only bi-jointed owing to the basal one being fused 
with and sunk into the outer face of the ligula, set very obliquely, 
contiguous at the base, and with the upper part assuming the shape 
of a broad oblique condyle, on which the second joint is articulated, 
the apical joint is very strongly swollen outwardly and somewhat 
acuminate at the tip, but straight inwardly ; the maxille are straight, 
somewhat dilated and truncated at the apex, hollowed inwardly, the 
basal joint of the maxillary palpi is inserted in the apical part in a 
line with the upper lobe which is slightly hollow, bluntly marginate 
and bearing three stiff setae on the outer margin of the concave part, 
the inner lobe is hardly distinct, yet corneous, and not fasciculate ; 
maxillary palpi long, second and apical joints elongated, the latter 
ampliated outwardly, straight inwardly; paraglosse of the ligula in 
the shape of two contiguous, nearly oblong, hairless lobes, not pro- 
jecting beyond the constricted part of the ligula; clypeus somewhat 
shorter than the head, and either divided from it by a distinct carina 
or a groove, coneaye, straight or little curved in front, broad in the 
anterior part and with the upper margin much reflexed; labrum 
broad, transverse, not emarginate; eyes large, frontal part not cari- 
nate laterally, nor transversely on the vertex; antenne 10-jointed, 
the club as long as the pedicel and tri-jointed, third joint somewhat 
elongated, equal in length to the two following, sixth and seventh 
compressed, inner angle of the latter projecting greatly, sub-laminate ; 
thorax regularly and moderately rounded laterally, and with the 
basal angle sharp, very strongly bi-sinuate at the base, clothed like 
the head with a very deep, more or less erect pubescence ; elytra 
slightly but regularly ampliated along the outer margin from the 
humeral part to past the middle, and plainly narrowed thence to past 
the middle, depressed on the upper side, and covering the basal part 
of the propygidium, briefly but densely hairy, the hairs appressed ; 
