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and faintly punctate; one or two rows of deeper, distant 

 punctures (eight or nine in number) occur on the disk, and a 

 series of fovea? runs along the marginal depressed space next the 

 raised margin. Under side and legs a little paler than upper 

 side, shining, bearing throughout a few scattered punctures, 

 and somewhat pubescent, more particularly the tibise and tarsi ; 

 thighs without teeth, but the anterior pair have a hollow space on 

 the under side; anterior tibiae strongly arched and very deeply 

 emarginate on the inside, the margin of the excised space very 

 closely fringed with pubescence, and a slightly incurved tooth, 

 with a few hairs projecting behind the emargiuation ; inter- 

 mediate and posterior legs simple ; coxse of the former adjoining 

 each other; anterior pair more separated, and posterior pair 

 widest apart ; trochanters of the latter large and broad ; tarsi of 

 all the legs short and robust ; claws simple. 



I have named the above species of this rare and interesting 

 genus after Mr. Wylie 3 to whom I am indebted for this as well as 

 many other valuable species discovered and sent home by him. 



Morionids3. 

 Morio, Latr. 

 1. M. Guineensis, Imhoff, Verh. d. nat. Gesells. in Basel, vi. 166. 

 M. Senegalensis, Dej. Cat. 



Niger, nitidus, depressus; thorace lato, subcordato, angulis 

 anticis prominulis, posticis rectis, medio et utrinque intra 

 basin sat profunde canaliculato ; elytris thoracis fere lati- 

 tudinis, quam latis non duplo longioribus, parallelis, striatis, 

 interstitiis subconvexis leevibus ; pedibus ferrugineo-fuscis. 



Long. 8J-6 lin., lat. 3-2 lin. 



This species varies considerably in size, so much so as almost to 

 lead one to suppose that there are at least two species confounded 

 under the same name, particularly as the larger individuals seem 

 to the eye broader in proportion than the smaller ones. Careful 

 examination and measurement, however, show that this is a mere 

 ocular deception, the relative proportions being the same. It ap- 

 proaches very nearly to anthracinus, Bohem., axidLparallelus, Klug. 

 The relative proportions of this species are as follow : — Thorax 

 broader than long. Length of elytra about 1^ or If times their 

 breadth, and rather more than twice the length of the thorax. 

 In my specimens from Senegal the elytra are rather more elon- 

 gate, being nearly twice as long as they are broad ; but as I can 

 rind no other difference, I do not consider this a new species. 



