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a yellow line in front ; face white ; mandibles yelloxo ; anterior 

 tibice yellow ; fore femora toith a yellow line in front ; abdonien 

 piceous, wit/i a fringe of white hair on each side of the first seg- 

 ment. Length 3 lines. 



Hylseus punctulatissimus. Smith. ? Black, with a cream-coloured 

 stripe close to the eyes ; antenncB black ; thorax coarsely punc- 

 tured, varied with pale yellow ; abdomen loith a fringe of ichite 

 hair on each side of the first segment. ^ H. annularis, var. y, 

 Kirby. Taken in company together at Coombe. 



Hyla?us hyalinatus, Smith. $ Head and thorax black, very mi- 

 nutely punctured xcith deeper punctures intermixed ; antenna black ; 

 wings hyaline ; legs black, posterior annulated with yellow. J" 

 Black ; face yellow, scape of antenna black, remaining joints ful- 

 vous beneath; thorax with a yelloiv spot on the tegulce and tubercles; 

 wings hyaline. Length 2 lines. — Received from Mr. Thwaites. 



" Descriptions of some new exotic genera belonging to the family 

 of the Sacred Beetles." By J. O. Westwood, F.L.S. 



Pvetaining Canthon viridis, Klug, as the type of Epilissus, Dej. 

 Cat., Mr. Westwood considers Circellium nitidum, Lap. Hist. nat. ins. 

 col. ii. p. QQ, from Madagascar, as the type of a separate subgenus 

 under the name of 



Arachnodes, W. Mentum basi latius, lateribus convergentibus 

 apice haud emarginato. Palpi labiales gracilcs. Prothorax la- 

 teribus, pone inedium valde angulatis et reflexis. Pedes vald^ 

 elongati, femoribus longis haud compressis. Tarsi articulo ultimo 

 subiiis ad apicem in spinam jjarvam producto. 



Nanos, W. Antennarum clava, brevis, subrotundata. Mentum in 

 medio latius, antice valde emarginatum. Palpi labiales brevissimi 

 crassi. Prothorax lateribus fere rotundatis haud reflexis. Pedes 

 puriim elongati, tibiis curvatis. — Type Circellium pygmaeum, La- 

 porte. JMadagascar. 



Macroderes, W. Corpus fere hemisphericum, clypeus emargina- 

 tus. Mentum subtriangulare antice prof unde fissum. Prothorax 

 maximus lateribus rotundatis, antice utrinque obsolete retusus. 

 Elytra levissime striato-punctata. Tibice posticae apice dilatatee, 

 tarsi articulo basali magno compresso triangulari. — 'I'ype Ontho- 

 phagus Greeni, Kirby. Cape of Good Hope. 



UxoxYS, W. Corpus oblongum subdepressum, elytris postici acumi- 

 natis. Clypeus antici acute bilobus. Mentum subquadratum, an- 

 tice parum emarginatum. Palpi labiales articulis longitudine fer'k 

 cequalibus. Prothorax lateribus in medio angulatis. Pedes an- 

 tici elongati, tibiis (in uno sexu) depressis intiis angulatis. Tarsi 

 4postici articuUs magnitudine decrescentibus. 



Uroxys cuprescens, W. U. cupreo- seu violaceo-nigricans, nitida 

 Icevissime punctulata, antennis rufescentibus, elytris striis 8 leviter 

 punctatis, tarsis piceis. Long. corp. lin. 4|. — Hab. Colombia. 



Scatonomus (Erichson) Myrmidon, W. S^. subcylindricus, niger, 

 capite et pronoto viridibus nitidis, clypeo profunda emarginato, in 

 sinu acute bidentato ; elytris leviter striatis ; prothoracis angulis 

 posticis promincntibus. Long. corp. lin. 2. — Hab. Cayenne. 



