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antennse be supposed to be long, and, consequently, it seems 
wonderfully ordained and adapted for the life it, from analogy, 
leads, and would entirely appear to be a Cyrtognathus, modi- 
fied to occupy a subterranean existence in the pathless forests 
of its native country, and therefore a true member of the 
Longicornes or Prionideous section of the Cerambycidse. The 
infrequency of this insect is doubtless owing to its secluded 
habits. Specimens have been found burrowing in a dead 
horse, and M. de Lacerda, of Bahia, who collected the example 
I now have, seems to have been the only successful searcher 
after the species. The late Eev. Hamlet Clark, in his ‘‘ Letters 
Home,” p. 141, gives a very amusing account of setting the 
negroes to obtain one for him ; he being at that time entomo- 
logizing in Brazil. He says, “ There is one grand Brazilian 
species of Beetle, of which only two or three examples are, 
I believe, known; Hypocephalus armatus, or Anglice, the 
Mole Cricket Beetle, from its quaint resemblance to a Mole 
Cricket. Well, 1 had some drawings of this creature made 
from the figure Mr. Smith gave me, and distributed them 
among some lively looking slaves here with the promise of 
three milreis (about six or seven shillings) tor every speci- 
men they would bring me ; but these negroes have such 
exuberant imaginations ! Yes ! They had all seen it, had 
seen it often, knew it well : one had found it under rotten 
wood, another had seen it frequently in his plantation, a 
third had observed it in the path only the other day ; but 
all this is only talk (three milreis would be a fortune to any 
of them), and no Hypocephalus has ever made its appear- 
ance.” 
On a new species of Strumigenys {S. Lewisi) from Japan, 
by P. Camekon. 
Head of the usual Strumigenys form ; rugosely, net-work- 
like reticulated; sparsely covered with white semi-erect 
hairs; the oral region and the sides not so strongly punc- 
