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[N.8.] 
For the remaining species, which were hitherto ranged in 
Platylabia, we revive the genus Chaetospania, es the type 
of which is Ch. inornata, Karsch, from Madagasca 
The characterization given of Platylabia holds good for 
Chaetospania, as the name only was wrongly used. 
Genus CHAETOSPANIA, Karsch. 
Chaetospania, Karsch, Berl. ent. Zeit., xxx, p. 87 (1886). 
Forest (partim), Dohrn, Stett. ent. Zeit., XXvVili, zi 347 
Labidophora (partim), Scudder, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 
Xvili, p. 297 (1876 
Sparaitina, Verhoeff, Zool. Anzeig., No. 665, p. 198 (1902). 
TYPE : Chactospania inornata, Karsch 
Antennae with fourth and fifth segments, almost, or quite, 
as long as the third. Head smooth, tumid, sutures subobsole te. 
Pronotum subquadrate, gently convex anteriorly : build slender 
short. Femora, especially anterior pair, thickened. Abdomen 
subparallel-sided in the ¢. Pygidium free. Forceps ¢ de 
pressed, remote. 
Platylabia major, Dohrn, the type of Platylabia, having 
been shown to be a Labidurid, identical with Palex sparattordes, 
Borm., and Sphingolabis, Borm., being ¢ stants he its type 
ranged in Plat i et well as the true Cha soeiie and 
Ch. feae is returned to it “tipth Sphingolabis. 
pp. 125 and 126. 
I have come to the decision that Platylabia gestroi, Dubr., 
is the female of Ph. thoracica, Dhorn, and that P. as wba de 
Kirby, is not specifically distinct, so that these three species, as 
recorded, now are fused under the name Chaetospania thoracica, 
p. 125. 
Table of Species. 
- Palen ¢ bifid at apex. 
gidium ¢ with sides dilated. . foliata, a 
2.9, Podium 3 parallel-sided 2. feae, Bor 
1.1. Pygidium ¢ not bifid at the apex. 
2. Pygidium ¢@ truncate at apex, 
with a minute median lobe 3. thoracica, Dohrn. 
2.2. Pygidium ¢_ triangular, apically 
acute .. es .. 4, stiletta, sp. n. 
