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Hacienda of Aiitisana, 13,300 feet ; in the valley of Collanes, 

 12,540 feet; and on Corazon at an altitnde of 12,00) feet. 



'J'rusting to the aecuracj of Dr. Kohlrausch's opinion on 

 the question of tlie specitie identity of Sc. sexspinosus and Sc. 

 mexicanus, I was led into deseribing as new, under the name 

 Mei'nertt, some specimens of a Scvlopocryptops from Dominica 

 which seemed identical with <S\'. Miersii of Meinert, but 

 wliich certaiidy were not Sc. Miersii oi Newport. I now find 

 that Dr. Kohlrausch was wrong in setting Sc. mexicanus as 

 synonymous with .Sc. sexspinosusj and that Sc. mexicanus was, 

 apparently in consequence of that error, redescribed by 

 Meinert as Sc, Miersii. 



Newportia dentata^ sp. n. 



Coluur ochraceous ; head-plate and maxillary feet casta- 

 ncous. 



llcad-plate somewhat quadrate; lateral margins nearly 

 parallel, posterior margin lightly convex ; marked with a 

 relatively small number of large punctures and with very 

 many minute close-set punctures ; shortly hirsute and fur- 

 nished behind with two abbreviated sulci. Antennas pubes- 

 cent, of moderate length, composed of seventeen segments ; 

 maxillary feet normally formed, internally hirsute ; the ante- 

 rior margin of the sternite almost straight and transverse, not 

 dentate, but showing faint indications of a wide prosternal 

 plate on each side ; with a conspicuous seta on each side. 

 First tergite marked behind the anterior margin with a con- 

 spicuous semicircular groove and on each side of the middle 

 line there runs backwards from this groove to the hinder 

 margin a single longitudinal sulcus. The rest of the tergites 

 except the last marked as in Cryptops with two conspicuous, 

 longitudinal, parallel sulci, and on each side with one poste- 

 riorly abbreviated oblique sulcus ; all the tergites except the 

 last without raised margins. 



Anal tergite posteriorly impressed, hinder margin convexly 

 produced in the middle ; sternite vi'i&Q^ with rounded posterior 

 angles and very slightly concave posterior margin ; pleurce 

 marked with many large pores, produced behind into a long, 

 straight, slender process, terminated by a sharp spine ; anal 

 legs short as compared with other members of the genus j 

 the femur triangular in section, armed beneath with four 

 enormously long and strong spines which progressively 

 increase in length and strength trom before backwards ; the 

 superior internal edge armed with a series of about six minute 

 spinules ; patella nearly cylindrical, very slightly longer than 



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