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pen of Mr. Adam White, have made us acquainted with a great num- 

 ber of exotic species belonging to this interesting family ; but, as 

 might be supposed to be the case, the two former works contain but 

 few species from Australia, India and Western Africa, in which our 

 private and public collections are very rich ; whilst, on the contrary, 

 they abound in American species, in which, as a whole, our col- 

 lections have been hitherto comparatively poor, our collectors in 

 South America having for the most part confined their attention to 

 the Lepidoptera, in which order we now I believe rival any of the 

 continental museums. I have therefore thought it would be service- 

 able, by way of Supplement to the works above-mentioned, to give 

 descriptions of fifty-two additional species, which I have selected 

 from the collections of the Rev. F. W. Hope, Captain Parry and my 

 own ; offering to those two gentlemen my best thanks for the use of 

 their collections so unrestrictedly permitted to me. The major part 

 of these species are represented in the four accompanying plates, the 

 majority being illustrated by details representing the 4-jointed maxil- 

 lary and the 3-jointed labial palpi, and the tarsi or tarsal ungues. 

 Short characters of fifteen of the species were published from my 

 notes by Mr. A. White in his List of the Clericlce. I have added a 

 figure of his brilliantly coloured Necrobia eximia, as well as the de- 

 scription and figure of a remarkable insect, under the name of Eno- 

 plium pustuliferum, from New Zealand, recently obtained for the 

 British Museum Cabinet, which is especially interesting on account 

 of its geographical position, the species of the group to which it ap- 

 pears to belong being only hitherto known as natives of Europe and 

 America. 



A. African Species*. 



1. Erymanthus horridus, Hope MS. (PI. XXIV. fig. 12.) 

 Totus niger nitidus, sparsim setosus, thorace et elytris vario- 

 losis, his postice dilatatis tuberculisqiie variis rufo-piceis rufo- 

 setulosis instructis ; femoribus anticis clavatis. — Long. corp. 

 lin. 11. 

 Hab. Cape Palmas (2). Savage). 



Corpus elongatum subdepressum, totum nigrum nitidum. Caput 

 ante oculos utrinque oblique impressum, vertice tuberculo parum ele- 

 vato, rotundato, impressione parva antica notato. Antennae nigrae arti- 

 culis intermediis piceis. Mandibulse uigrse. Ospiceum; palpi maxil- 

 lares articulo ultimo mediocriter, palpi labiales articulo ultimo valde 

 securiformi. Pronotum valde irregulare, utrinque tuberculis duo- 

 bus latis transversis, fossula media longitudinali, separatis, Iseve, vix 

 punctulatum, et paulo ante apicem constrictum. Scutellum par- 

 vum, in medio impressione rotunda notatum. Elytra postice rotun- 

 dato-dilatata, dorso irregularia, singulo inter humeros et medium 

 carina obliqua elevata, tuberculis numerosis, parvis, elevatis, singulo- 

 que puncto profundo impresso, tuberculis pone medium elytrorum sim- 



* Captain Boheman has published the descriptions of thirty-one new species 

 from South Africa in his ' Insecta Caffrariie,' part 2, 1851. 



