PASSALID^. 19 



86. PASSALUS Africanus. B.M. 



Passalus Africanus, Perch. 2 Supp. 10. 31. t. 135. f. 2. 

 Hob. Sierra Leone. 



87. PASSALUS laevis. 



Passalus laevis, King, in Atlas z. Erman's Reise um die Erde, 39. 



105; Burm. Handb. v. 474. 21. 

 Hab. Princes Island, W. Africa. 



88. PASSALUS humeralis, n. s. PI. I. fig. 6. B.M. 



Convex, black, smooth and shining, the mandibles short, stout, 

 and having two obtuse teeth at their apex, a stout one towards 

 their base within notched at the apex, and a short obtuse in- 

 termediate one ; the excavation of the mandibles above is deeply 

 punctured ; the labrum transverse, punctured, and fringed with 

 ferruginous pubescence; the disk of the head is irregularly 

 sculptured, not punctured, shining ; in the centre, on a line with 

 the vertex of the eyes, is a slightly elevated tubercle, and on each 

 side uniting with it a smaller obtuse one ; from the apex of the 

 central tubercle pass forwards divergent elevated carinae which 

 terminate in small acute tubercles a little before reaching the 

 margin of the clypeus which is entire ; the antennae have elon- 

 gate lamellae on the three apical joints. Thorax transverse, and 

 having a slightly impressed central channel, and a large rounded 

 fovea towards the hinder angles, which beneath are clothed with 

 fulvous pubescence. Abdomen deeply striate, the outer striae 

 indistinctly punctured ; at the humeral angles of the elytra is a 

 patch of fulvous pubescence. Length 1 in. 7 lin. 



Hab. Ashanti, West Africa. From the Collection of Edward 

 Doubleday, Esq. 



89. PASSALUS tetraphyllus. 



Passalus tetraphyllus, Eschsch. Diss. Gen. Pass. n. 13 ; Burm. 



Handb. v. 499. 58. 

 Passalus abortivus, Perch. 87. 40. t. 6. f. 1 <$ 1 Supp. 24. 40; 



Mag. Zool (1841). 

 Hab. Princes Island. 



90. PASSALUS teres. B.M. 



Passalus teres, Perch. 1 Supp. 39. 65 ; Mag. Zool (1841) ; Burm. 



Handb. v. 515. 83. 

 Hab. New Holland. 



