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Malthinus. 



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M. marginaUs, Nob. (Molorchus) Journ. A. N. S. 

 1824, read to the Society the preceding year. Malthinus 

 Jatipennis ? Germar Spec. Novae, p. 72. 1824. 



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Dasytes, Payk. Fabr. 



To this genus, as I now understand it, belong several 

 species, which I pubhshed under the genus Malachius j 

 such as termindlis, Nob., Sec. 



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TiLLUs, Fab. 



T.? termindtus. Black ; terminal joint of the antennae 

 as long as the head and thorax. 

 Inhab. United States. 



JBodv black, denselv nunr.tnrprl nnrl 



dy black, densely punctured and with numerous 

 cinereous hairs : eyes reniform, emargination very pro- 

 found : antenna, radical joint suboval ; second joint 

 globular ■ 3d, 4th, 5th and 6th very short, transverse, 

 approximated ; 7th, 8th and 9th rather larger, serrate ; 

 terminal one greatly elongated, longer than the head and 

 thorax, and about three times as long as all the preced- 

 ing joints conjunctly, much compressed, linear, with 

 dense minute black hairs, tip and base rouaded : lahrum 

 rounded at tip : mandibles bifid at tip : thorax cylindrical, 

 hardly narrowed at base, margin rufous : tarsi distinctly 

 five articulate ; first joint longer than the second ; penul- 

 timate one bilobate : nails dentated : abdomen sanguine- 

 ous ; terminal segment black. 



Length rather more than one fourth of an inch. 



1 obtained two specimens of this curious insect, at the 



