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the anterior tarsi have a somewhat similar villosity on their 
posterior border. The antennas, not much shorter than the 
body, are flattened below and slightly convex above ; they 
are strongly enough punctured, with the punctures on joints 
three to seven chiefly confined to the lateral borders; the last 
four joints are somewhat villose underneath. The prosternal 
process is slightly emarginate behind. 
Before seeing the female, which is in Mr. Fry’s collection, 
I had placed this species in Solenoptera ; but as the female 
has the sides of the prothorax nearly straight, with the ante- 
rior angles laterally produced or toothed, the species seems 
better placed in Prosternodes . 
A distinct species from St. Domingo, to which Chevrolat 
had given the manuscript name dominicensis , somewhat 
resembles the preceding. The single male specimen in the 
collection is in too bad a condition for detailed description ; 
but the chief points of difference may be mentioned : — Smaller 
(length 20 millim.). Antennas relatively shorter, scarcely 
reaching to the middle of the elytra. Lateral margins of the 
prothorax less regularly crenulate. (Scutellum ?) Episterna 
of metathorax and sides of the abdomen with a less dense 
greyish pubescence. Metasternum without oblique fascias. 
Solenoptera, Serv. 
That Chevrolat did not fully appreciate the chief differences 
between his genus Elateropsis and the genus Solenoptera of 
Serville is shown by the fact that he included in the former a 
true species of Solenoptera , viz. S. sulcicollis , Thoms. The 
scutellum in this species is as broad as it is long and some- 
what rounded behind. In the male the pronotum is finely 
and very closely punctured towards the sides — a sexual cha- 
racter to be met with in all the species of Solenoptera , and, as 
far as I know, not occurring in the genus Elateropsis . 
Lacordaire has passed unnoticed this sexual character, but 
has pointed out the form of the scutellum as of considerable 
importance in distinguishing the two genera. 
Solenoptera hilineata , Fabr. ( Prionus ), Syst. Ent. p. 163, 
has been omitted from Gemminger and Harold’s Catalogue. 
The specimens of this species in the British Museum collec- 
tion are ticketed Guadeloupe and Santa Cruz. 
Solenoptera suhcanaliculata , White, appears to be synony- 
mous with S. canaliculata , Fabr. Fabricius’s description 
applies exactly to the type of White’s species. It is, how T - 
ever, probable that authors have included more than one 
variety under the Fabrician name. Olivier has figured and 
