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corresponding articulation of Clivina, and is almost in a 

 securiform knob. The corslet is in general g-lobular.* 



Our second and last sub-division of the Bipartiti will in- 

 clude those whose fore-legs are neither indented on the out- 

 side, or bidigitated at the end, and in which the second arti- 

 culation of the antennas is evidently shorter than the follow- 

 ing. They approach very near by the manducatory organs to 

 the last two sub-genera. They have, by some authors, indeed, 

 been confounded with Scarites, whose appearance and habits 

 they certainly possess. 



Some have the body narrow, elongated, nearly paralleliped 

 with the corslet nearly square ; the antennae entirely, or 

 partially granulated ; the last articulation of the outer palpi 

 sub-cylindrical, and that of the labial palpi like a reversed 

 cone. They are all exotic. 



MoRio, Lat. 



Have the antennae of equal thickness throughout, the la- 

 brum deeply emarginated, the outer palpi filiform, the thighs 

 oval, and the legs triangular. t 



Ox.ENA, Oliv. '^. 



The antennae are thicker or swollen at the end, the labrum 

 entire, the labial palpi terminated by a larger articulation, 

 nearly hatchet-formed, or triangular ; the thighs and legs 

 narrow and elongated. ;{: 



The others have the body oval or oblong, with the corslet 



* divines, Nos. 8 — 21, of M. le Comte Dejean ; but the eighth, or 

 arctica, appears to have some of the character of Cephalotes. 



■J- Harpalus monUicornis, Lat. Gener. Crust, and Insect. I. p. 206 ; Morio 

 monilicornls, Dej. Spec. I. p. 4?0; Scarit. Georgice, Palis de Beau. vii. 15, 

 5. ; Morio brasiliensis, Dej. ibid. ; Alorio orientalis, ejusd. ibid. 



J Oxcena dentnpes, Oliv. Ency. Method. ; Oxcena rogeri, Dej. Spec. p. 

 434 ; Oxcena bru ,nea, ejusd. ibid ; OxcEiia gyllhenalii, ejusd. 



