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Galerita, adds two insects belonging to other fami- 

 lies, viz. Planetes and Siagona. 



Sp. 2. Attelaboides. — This species is evidently a 

 Galerita ; from examining the specimen in the 

 Banksian Cabinet, I find that it closely approaches 

 in its form Gal. Africana D.J., of which species I am 

 inclined to think it the other sex. It may be stated 

 that the thorax of Attelaboides is similar to Gal. uni- 

 color D, J. ; the insect is all black, its elytra are 

 not so broad as the true Africana ; instead of 

 adding the locality of India, I suspect it to be from 

 Sierra Leone. 



Sp. 3. Hirta. — This insect is an Omphra of 

 Leach, a Planetes of MacLeay, and pertains to the 

 family of Helluonidse ; the table of the genera com- 

 posing it will be found at the end of the Fabrician 

 Caraboidea. At page 215 of the Eleutheratorum 

 there is a singular remark, after stating that Hirta 

 inhabits Tranquebar, the description is given and 

 terminated thus, " Character generis e Gal. Ameri- 

 cana desumptus." It may here be remarked that 

 Galerita has never been found in the East Indies ; 

 the genus alluded to is evidently one of the Helluo- 

 nidse and a Planetes of MacLeay. I think it will 

 be found eventually that all the species of Helluo 

 of the New World differ generally from those of 



