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16. Scapterus Guerini, Dej. Sp. Gén. II, p. 472. 

 Teinzò. A single example. 



Gri'oup Clivinini. 



17. Oxygnathus elongatus, Wiedmann, Zool. Mag. II, 1, p. 38; 

 Dejean, Sp. Gén. II, p. 475; Putzeys, Mém. Liège, XYIII, p. 5, 

 t I, fig. 1. 



Palon in Pegu. 



Signor Fea obtained one example only of this very rare and 

 interesting Scaritide. It agrees very closely with Wiedmann's 

 description, which is much better than that of Dejean. Putzeys 

 mentions only the generic characters and adds very little to 

 our knowledge of the form. The genus, in fact, is identical 

 with Stratiotes of the last-named author, founded on numerous 

 Tropical American species. The very long and acute, edentate 

 mandibles, the extremely short and broad labrum, looking like 

 a linear margin to the episteme and the large post-ocular genae, 

 are the same as in Stratiotes, with the typical species of which 

 it also agrees in the absence of the two setae, so universal in 

 the Clivinini group, on the penultimate joint of the labial palpi. 

 The palpi, it is true, are much longer and more slender than 

 in the larger American species of Stratiotes, but this character 

 is not constant in the genus, S. longicollis having palpi ap- 

 proaching in tenuity those of Oxygnathus. It is curious that all 

 the three authors above-cited avoid mentioning the form of the 

 eyes and post-ocular genae. A phrase of Wiedmann implies 

 that he mistook the genae for the eyes and in fact the two are 

 so closely united and the facettes of the eye so microscopically 

 fine that the limits can scarcely be distinguished, except by a 

 faintly plicated depression. The length of Signor Fea's example 

 is 11 millim. Wiedmann gives 4 '/g lines. 



18. divina indica, Putzeys, Mon. des Clivina (Mém. Liège II) 

 p. 67 (1846). 



Karin Gheba, 900 to 1100 m.; Bhamò. 



