112 The Zoologist — February, 1866. 



CANTHAEOPtATYS FeLDERI, WeStW. 



C. piceo-niger, subopacus ; mandibulis subtri<;ono-falcatis, dente valido intus 

 prope basin armatis; antennis latiiudinera capitis lonRitudine vix siiperanti- 

 bus ; capite et pionoto piinctalissimis, liujus disco magis laevi et subinegulari, 

 uliinqiie circulariler subiinpresso ; capitis verlice longiiudiualiter canalicu- 

 lato; pvonoto transverso, poslice laliori, an<>ulis poslicis fere rectangulariter 

 incisis; elytris minute cicairicosis, punutisqne minulis inter cicatrices dispo- 

 sitis, coslis 3 longitudinalibus ordinariis vix distinctis ; tibiis anticis extus ia 

 medio 2- Tel 3-denticulatis, apice denle lato armalis, 4 poslicis extus denlicu- 

 laiis ; femoribus subtus caslaneis ; metasterno fulvo velutino sericante, disco 

 crebre punctalissimo. 



Long. Corp. Ho. 17 ; mandib. liii. 2. 



Habitat in Africa, apud. fluv. " White Nile." Dom. Feldero captus, et nomine 

 ejus bonorato inscriptus. 



Sub-genus novum Cantharoctenus, Westw. 

 Canllinrocnemidi proximum ; differt protborace magis cylindrico, antennis duplo 

 longioribus, 18-arliuulali$, arliculis duplo pectinalis, pedibusque longioribus. 



Cantharoctencs Burchellii, Westw. 

 C. piceo-castaneus, nitidus; protborace cylindrico ; mandibulis capitis longitudine, 

 falcatis, apice valde oblique truncalis, denle acuto apicali, altero subapicali 

 interno, basi etiam intus denle parvo conico nigro armatis ; antennarum arti- 

 culis omnibus (2 basalibus excepiis) infra ad basin dentibus 2 armatis, apice 

 infra in lobum latum tenueni deQexum produclo, cujus margo incisus denies 

 2 alios simulat (inde antennae singulae (54 spinas habere videnUir); capitis 

 vertice in medio canali longitudinali tenui instructo ; protborace nilido, an- 

 gnlis anticis rotundalis, posticis oblique truncatis, lateribus pone medium 

 spina parva armatis, disco nilido, utrinque pone medium tuberculo parum 

 eminenle subnolato ; elytris protborace multo latioribus, nitidis, punctalissi- 

 mis, sutura striolisque 2 longitudinalibus laevibus vix distinctis notatis; meta- 

 thorace subtus fulvo dense hirlo ; tibiis anticis planis, extus in medium spinis 

 2 denticulisque nonnuUis minutis armatis, apiceque extus in spiuam latam 

 produclo, 4 posticis extus denliculatis. 

 Long. Corp. lin. 13 ; mandib. lin. 2. 



Habitat " Damara Land" Africa: merid. Dom. Aodersson captus. In Mus. 

 Hopeiano Oxoniis. 



Papers read. 

 Mr. W. C. Hewitson communicated a further instalment of his " Descriptions of 

 new Hesperidae," including twenty-three species of the genus Hesperia. 



The President read a paper entitled " A List of the Longicornia collected by the 

 late Mr. P. Bouchard at Santa Maria." The species were upwards of fifty in number, 

 and four new genera were characterized." — /. W. D. 



