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CLASS INSECTA. 



pointed at the end, and the corslet in the form of a truncated 

 heart.* 



OoDEs, Bon. 



Resemble Callistus as to the tooth of the emargination of the 

 chin, but have the last articulation of the external maxillary 

 palpi cylindrical, and the same of the labial in a truncated 

 oval. The corslet is trapezoidal, more narrow in front, and 

 of the breadth of the base of the abdomen, at its posterior 

 edge, C helopiodes. Fab. Panz. ibid. xxx. 11. 



Chl^nius, Bon. 



In which the tooth of the emargination of the mentum is 

 bifid, which have the external maxillary palpi terminated by 

 an articulation almost cylindrical, a little attenuated at the 

 base, and the last of the labial in the form of a reversed and 

 elongated cone. 



Carahus Saponaceus of Olivier (Col. Til. 36. iii. 26), 

 which they employ in Senegal as a sort of soap, belongs to 

 this sub-genus. -f- 



In the following the external palpi are terminated by a 

 broader and compressed articulation, in the form of a reversed 

 triangle, or hatchet, and more dilated in the males. The 

 tooth of the emargination of the mentum is always bifid. 



• Carahus lunatus. Fab. Panz. Faun. Insect. Germ. XIV. 5; Dej. Spec. 

 II. p. 296. 



f C Cinctus, Fab. Herbst. Archiv. XXIX. 7; C.festivus, Fab. Panz. 

 ibid. XXX. 1.5; C. Spoliatus, Fab. Panz. ibid. XXXI. 6; Chloenius vcluti- 

 nus, Dej. ; Carahus ductus, Oliv. Col. III. 35. iii. 28 ; C. holosericeus. Fab. 

 Panz. ibid. XL 9 ; C. nigriconus. Fab. Panz ibid. XL 9. h. c. C. agrorum, 

 Oliv. ibid. 'X.ll. 144; C. 4-sulcatus, Payk, and many other exotic species 

 of Fabricius, such as the following: tenuicoUis, occulatus, posticus, micans, 

 quadriculor, stigma, amnion, carnifex, &c. See the second vol. of the Spec, 

 of M. le Comte Dejean. 



