160 ILLUSTRATIONS OF FOUR SPECIES OF THE GENUS CHIROSCELtS. 
organs in situ : whilst fig. 1 c, represents the underside of the 
abdomen of the female. 
CHIROSCELTS BIFENESTRELLA, Wesiw. 
Transactions of the Zoological Society, vol. iii, p. 209, Plate xiv. figure 2. 
(Plate 87, fig. 3, 3 a.) 
C. nigra nitida capite parutn rugoso, mandibulis minus dentatis quam in prsecedenti, elytris 
parallelis, abdominis tnaculis duabus minutis rotundatis, margineque antico pronoti baud 
puncto notato, tibiis 4-posticis fere rectis, apicibus intermetliarum subdilatatis. Long, 
corp. lin. 14. 
Habitat in Guinea. Mus. Nost. D. Raddon. 
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CHIROSCELTS AUSTRALTS, JVestw. 
(Plato 87, fig. 2, 2 a.) 
C. nigra nitida ; capite supra rugoso (vertice sub-trituberculato) prothorace lato postice punctis 
duobus fere ad angulos posticos impresso, elytris elongato-ovatis punctato-striatis, tibiis 
anticis palmatis, posticis 4-subrectis simplicibus, abdominis maculis duabus ventralibus fere 
semiciroularibus, femoribus anticis spina basalt alterisque duabus subapicalibus. Long, 
corp. fere line. 2. 
Habitat in Africa Orient-Australis partibus interioribus. In IMus. D. Melly. 
This fine addition to the genus is unique in the collection of 
A. Melly, Esq., to whom I am indebted for an opportunity of 
presenting a figure and description of it to the entomologist. 
CHIROSCELTS PASSALOIDES, IFestw. 
Transactions of the Zoological Society, vol. iii. p. 210, Plate 14, figure 3. 
C. nigra nitida; vcrtice tntuberculato, tubercnlo postico majori, antennis crassis, pronoto sub- 
quadmto angulis rotundatis; elytris parallelis striatis ; tibiis latissimis planis anticis extus 
serratis, posticis intus versus apicem dento armatis; abdomine subtus macula nulla instructo. 
Long, corp. lin. 19^—205^. 
Habitat in Guinea. Nosir. Scc» H. Raddon ct Savage. 
The plant represented in the plate is the Stapelia divaricata from 
Southern Africa. 
