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only specimen which I possess being in a very bad condition, 
I have not been-able to study this species completely. It 
ought, without doubt, to form a new genus.” Better speci- 
mens of another species of the same genus having been sub- 
sequently received from the Gaboon, M. Chevrolat was enabled 
to characterize the genus from them. This he did in M. J. 
Thomson’s ‘ Archives Entomologiques’ (ii. 245), with the 
remark that “ Our Callidium sphericolle (Rev. et Mag. d. Zool. 
1855, p. 283), from Old Calabar, enters into this genus." 
M. Thomson, judging from the facies and some other cha- 
Africa, that at the same date Brazil was isolated from the 
