Rev. W. Kirby on Climdium. 



Art. III. The Characters of Climdium, a new genus of 

 Insects in the Order Coleoptera, with a Description of 

 Clinidium Guildingii. By the Rev, William Kirby, 

 M.A.^ F.B., L., and Z,S., Sfc. 



The remarkable insect, of which I now offer a description to the 

 Editors of the Zoological Journal, inhabits St. Vincent's, and was taken 

 in a rotten tree, in the woods of Mount St, Andrew's in that island, by 

 the Rev. Lansdown Guilding, and sent me with a valuable collection of 

 insects, by that indefatigable collector, accurate painter, and learned 

 describer of the zoological treasures of the Caribbean Islands and Ocean. 



This insect, like the Pseudomorpha excrucians,* presents characters 

 of several different and distant tribes, so that after a very close inspec- 

 tion, and diligent comparative investigation of its characters, I feel un- 

 certain to what modern group, larger or smaller, to refer it. As the 

 specimen received from Mr. Guilding was somewhat mutilated, and 

 gummed down upon a piece of card so that I could not examine the 

 under side of it, I drew up as accurate a description of it as I could, 

 and sent it to that gentleman under the name here given, requesting him 

 to make a figure of it from his own specimens, and to furnish such fur- 

 ther characters as they might supply him with. His observations, which 

 I have now received, though they throw some further light upon the 

 subject, do not yet enable me to decide upon the exact station of the 

 insect. I shall begin by laying down the characters of the genus as far 

 as I am, at present, enabled to ascertain them. 



Genus. Clinidium.! 



Labrum punctiforme, minutum. 

 Mandibul(e subforcipatse. 

 Maxilla nondum investigatse. 



* Kirby in Linn. Trans, xiv. 98, — t. iii. f. 3, 

 ■\ From (cXu'icftor, a couch, from its form. 



