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<5 thorace angulis posticis profunde excisis, calcaratis ; disco postice 
impresso utrinque bituberoso, medio nigro. 
$ thorace angulis posticis simplicibus, rotundatis; disco minus 
impresso. 
Somewhat the appearance of Telephones lividus , L., but 
larger and opaque. Head subquadrate, flat above, parallel at 
the sides in the male, slightly narrowed posteriorly in the 
female ; mandibles large, curved, pitchy at the apex ; antennai 
three fourths the length of the elytra, slender. Thorax one 
fourth broader than long, obtusely rounded in front, impressed 
within the margins; the disk with a slight mesial carina in front, 
impressed in the middle behind, the sides obtusely bituberose; 
the posterior angles are deeply excavated above, elevated be¬ 
hind, excised at the sides, and with a sharp spur directed 
forwards over the excavation. Elytra the same width as the 
thorax, parallel, opaque, silky, with very slight indication of 
two costae on each. 
Hah. Antananarivo {Rev. R. Toy) and Fianarantsoa (Rev. 
W. Deans Cowan). 
Lithinidae. 
Lithinus penicillatus , sp. n. 
Elongatus, cylindricus, niger, fulvo-squamosus, eristis plurimis fulvia 
ornatus ; elytris crebre fortiter punctatis. 
Long. 7-9-1- lin. 
Forehead with two approximate tufts of fulvous hairs. 
Thorax a little longer than broad, rounded in front, straight 
at the sides, scarcely narrowed posteriorly, strongly but not 
very thickly punctured, with six tufts of fulvous hair on the 
anterior margin, and four on the disk, the posterior pair of 
which are very small and sometimes partly black. Elytra 
very little broader than the thorax, parallel, with close lines 
of large deep punctures or fossas (the intervals narrow), with 
very numerous tufts of fulvous hair, and six of black hair ar¬ 
ranged as follows:—two large tufts in the middle of each 
elytron near the base, black, fulvous behind, with a smaller 
fulvous tuft at its side; there are eight arranged in a circle on 
the back behind the middle, the four posterior ones more or less 
black ; below these there are four others, one on each subapical 
callosity and two close to the suture; there is one on the 
margin below the shoulder, another about the middle, and 
three on each side of the apical margin. Legs clothed with 
fulvous scales ; knees black. 
Hah. Antananarivo (Rev. R. Toy). 
