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the clypeua and tlie organs of tlio mouth are very peculiar. 

 Anoth(M- aberrant p:enus to which JJi-smont/x seems to show 

 some rchitioushij) is Ori/ctoinorp/iut, a Chilian genus for which 

 Lacordaire formed a special group of Dynastidi\i (the Orycto- 

 morphides), associating with it an African geims, Ilomoeo- 

 viorphus, and an Australian one, Corynophyllus. Thia 

 curious assemblage is quite unnatural and a l)etter resting- 

 j)lace has to be found for Oryclomorphiof. Its claws are 

 movable arid slightly unequal on all the feet, and those of 

 the front feet of the male are exactly as in Jhsmonyx, the 

 labrum has a thickened front margin which is visible 

 externally, and in other respects, conspicuously in its bright 

 colouring and sexual differences, it agrees less with any 

 other genus of Dynastidai than with the Parastasia group of 

 Kutelidi\3. The latter embraces a variety of forms already 

 recognized as connecting the Uutelid;e and Dynastidaj, but 

 the latter family, if these aberrant members are excluded 

 from it, becomes fairly homogeneous. H. W. Bates in 

 forming the genus Metopachylus has pointed out its relation- 

 ship to Oryctomorphus and also to Parastasia and Polymoechus, 

 but without definitely assigning it to either family. 



Another genus, Mesystcechus of Waterhouse, placed by 

 its founder among the Anoplognathini, seems to belong also 

 to the present group. Its labrum is quite unlike that 

 characteristic of the former group. 



MelolonthidsB. 

 Dejeania lineata, sj). n. 



Fusco-nigra, supra squamosa, subtus nitidior, pectore pedlbusque 

 sparse, abdomine dense, griseo-setosis ; cl)'peo scmicirculari, uudo. 

 rugoso, frouto subtiUter rugosa, setosa ; prothorace globoso, f usco- 

 squamoso, margiuibus lateraliter atque postice griseis ; scutcllo 

 fusco ; elytris t'usco-squamosis, lineis 4 griseis, externa abbre- 

 viata ; pj-gidio dense flavido-squamoso ; prothoracis margine 

 postico ante scutelli angulos miuutissirae inciso ; scutcllo lato ; 

 elytris postice ad suturam baud angulatis. 



(5" . Tarsis iiitermodiis sat brevibus, podibus posticis validis, tro- 

 chanterilnis lougis, paulo spinosis. 



Long. 7 mm. 



Hal). Burma, Shan States. 



This species is nearly related to D. (" Hoplia ") marginatus, 

 Nonfried, which its author has referred to a wrong group. 

 It is larger than that insect and in addition to the dark 

 margins of the elytra has three dark stripes of equal width 

 to the pale interspaces. The white scales upon tho pronotum 

 are more restricted behind. I have seen only males of both 



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