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Hacienda of Antisana, 13,300 feet ; in the valley of Collanes, 

 12j540 feet; and on Corazon at an altitude of 12,000 feet. 



IViisting to the accuracj of Dr. Kohlrausch's opinion on 

 the question of the specific identity of Sc. sexsphiosus and 8c. 

 mexicanus^ I was led into describing as new, under the name 

 Meinerti, some specimens of a Scolopoc7"yptops from Dominica 

 which seemed identical with Sc. Miersii of Meinert, but 

 which certainly were not Sc. Miersii oi Newport. I now find 

 that Dr. Kohlrausch was wrong in setting Sc. mexicanus as 

 synonymous with Sc. sexspinosus^ and that Sc. mexicanus was, 

 apparently in consequence of that error, redescribed by 

 Meinert as Sc. Miersii. 



Newportia deiitata., sp. n. 



Colour ochraceous ; head-plate and maxillary feet casta- 

 neous. 



Head-plate somewhat quadrate; lateral margins nearly 

 parallel, posterior margin lightly convex ; marked with a 

 relatively small number of large punctures and with very 

 many minute close-set punctures ; shortly hirsute and fur- 

 nished behind with two abbreviated sulci. Antennse pubes- 

 cent, of moderate length, composed of seventeen segments ; 

 maxillary feet normally formed, internally hirsute ; the ante- 

 rior margin of the sternite almost straight and transverse, not 

 dentate, but showing faint indications of a wide prosternal 

 plate on each side ; with a conspicuous seta on each side. 

 First tergite marked behind the anterior margin with a con- 

 spicuous semicircular groove and on each side of the middle 

 line there runs backwards from this groove to the hinder 

 margin a single longitudinal sulcus. The rest of the tergites 

 except the last marked as in Gryptops with two conspicuous, 

 longitudinal, parallel sulci, and on each side with one poste- 

 riorly abbreviated oblique sulcus ; all the tergites except the 

 last without raised margins. 



Anal tergite posteriorly impressed, hinder margin convexly 

 produced in the middle ; sternite wide, with rounded posterior 

 angles and very slightly concave posterior margin ; pleurae 

 marked with many large pores, produced behind into a long, 

 straight, slender process, terminated by a sharp spine; anal 

 legs short as compared with other members of tlie genus j 

 the femur triangular in section, armed beneath with four 

 enormously long and strong spines which progressively 

 increase in length and strength from before backwards ; the 

 superior internal edge armed with a series of about six minute 

 spniules ; patella nearly cylindrical, very slightly longer than 



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