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and with three deep points near the third stripe. It is found 

 with the last. 



Scarites sabtdosits, Oliv. Col. III. 36, 1,8; Clairv. 

 Entom. Helv. II. 9, 6. Scarites IcBvigatus, Fab. Dej., is 

 very much like the last, but rather smaller ; more depressed ; 

 wingless ; with the elytra faintly striated. The fore-legs 

 have only two indentations after the three common teeth. It 

 inhabits the same locality as the first, and is found also in 

 Sicily, whence it has been brought by M. Lefebvre. 



OXYGNATHUS, Dej. 



Essentially similar to Scarites as to the antennae and 

 palpi ; but having in common with the two following sub- 

 genera, long, narrow, toothless mandibles, which enlarge con- 

 siderably, like a pair of nippers ; and the body narrow, elon- 

 gated, and cylindrical. The antennae are shorter than the 

 head, and the mandibles united. The labrum is indistinct. 

 The corslet is nearly square. 



The typical species, Scarites elongatus, Wiedem ; Oxygna- 

 thus elongatus, Dej. Spec. II. 474, is from the East Indies. 



In others, the four exterior palpi, or, at least, thelabii, are 

 terminated by a spindle-shaped articulation, finishing in a 

 point. The body is elongated and cylindrical, and the man- 

 dibles long narrow, without observable teeth, as well as those 

 of Oxygnathus. 



OXYSTOMUS, Lat. 



Have the labial palpi nearly as long as the outer max- 

 illaries, bent, with the first articulation, and cylindrical ; 

 the following but little elongated, and the last spindle- 

 shaped, long, and very pointed at the end. The antennae 

 are perfectly moniliform, from the middle of their length, 

 with their first articulation as long as the three following to- 



