new Species of Ulster idx. 



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the base of the metasteriuim, in the ctiitre of wliich it is 

 aiifjuhite, the suture of the mesosteniutu is invisible ; the legs, 

 anterior tibia? dihited, external ed;^e nearly semicircular, 

 intermediate and posterior tibi;e externally triangularly dilated, 

 tarsi short with two claws. 



//«/>. Paraguay (ffr. J. Bohls). Two examples found on 

 the ath October, 1892, while it was running over a niuund 

 made by termites. 



SiTALlA, gen. nov. 



Corpus oblongum, subparallelum, convexum, brunneum ; caput inter 

 ocidos planum, antennis funieulo brevi sensira incrasHuto, clava 

 ovali baud conipres.-^a ; pronotum supra convexum ; elytris cari- 

 nati.s(tig.3(0; propypidiurapostice acuminatum; pygidium declive; 

 presternum basi incisum, bistriatum ; mesostemum in medio 

 minute productum ; tibia? lata?, fossa tarsali parum lata, subrecta, 

 leviter exarata. 



While establishing the above genus for the reception of 

 Paratropus Severi'ni, Lew. (Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxvi. 

 p. 1-12, 1892), I have availed myself of M. G. Severin's kind 



Fir. 3. 



^ <:^c,; 



r-^ 



(I. b. c. 



Sitalia Sevenni, Lew. 



loan of the blocks to reproduce the woodcuts made of the 

 species from his original drawings. Only one example of 

 this curious insect is known and no disscctious have been 

 made of it. 



Hovialopijgus remex, sp. n. (PI. X. fig. 10.) 



Oblongus, Bubdepressus, piceus, nitidus ; fronte abrupta, tenuissime 

 puiictulata ; pronoto stria marginali basi abbreviata, lateral! 

 obliqua ; elytris striis 1 integra, 2-4 ina)(iuaUter abbreviatis, 

 suturali gcminata ; pygidio puuctulato ; prosterno bistriato ; 

 mesostemo autice biemargiuato, stria margiuali iutegra ; tibiis 

 valde dilatatis. 



L. 2 J mill. 



