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margin is broader at the base than at the sides; there is a 

 slight tendency to transverse wrinkling across the disk, more 

 particularly behind. Scutellum black and opake, and scarcely 

 reaching beyond the interspace between the thorax and elytra. 

 Elytra rather broader than the thorax, with the base nearly 

 straight, but sloping slightly from the shoulders (which are rather 

 prominent) inwards to the scutellum ; their sides are nearly par- 

 allel.; they are shining, greenish, with a tinge of brassy on the 

 margins, becoming slightly coppery at the very apex, deeply 

 striate, and with faint indications of punctures at the bottom of 

 the strise ; the interstices are impunctate, but under a powerful 

 lens show fine transverse strigations, which give them a some- 

 what silky appearance ; there are eight strise, besides the scu- 

 tellar stria and the outer marginal one, which, with that next it, 

 is the deepest ; a number of deep punctures or fovea? occur on 

 the marginal stria, or on the interstice between it and the next 

 one ; a deep puncture also occurs on the inner side of the third 

 stria, not quite half-way from the base, and another on the 

 outer side of the second stria, almost at the apex ; the apex is 

 sinuate-truncate. Upper side of the last abdominal segment 

 silky-opake, with a number of distinct punctures. Under- 

 side and legs shining brownish-black, or piceous, impunctate; 

 legs moderate in length and slender ; tarsi slender, fourth joint 

 simple ; claws not pectinate. 



Ozoenidse. 



Goniotropis, Gray. 



The species which follows certainly belongs to this genus, 

 although it differs in one or two points from the characters 

 which have been given as generic by Gray. That author 

 gives the mandibles as pluridentate on the inner side, and 

 the anterior thighs as dentate on the under side, neither of 

 which is the case in my G. Wyliei; but, as in other respects 

 it agrees with the diagnosis of Goniotropis*, I do not propose to 

 make a new genus for it on account of them, but merely with- 

 draw the above specialties from the characters of the genus, and 

 thus widen it to receive the following species. 



1. G. Wyliei, mihi. 



Castanea, nitida, lsevis; capite antice et postice levissime 

 punctato, vertice elevato, impunctato ; mandibulis elongatis, 



* The reader will find the generic as well as the specific characters no- 

 ticed in the following description, so that he can satisfy himself that I have 

 not overlooked any of importance. 



