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The specific name proposed above is therefore for the present merely 
provisional. 
Having, however, received information from Captain Boys of his 
having been so kind as to forward to me a number of species of this 
family from India, I trust to be enabled in the following number of 
this work to give coloured figures of this and other apparently 
new species described in his paper above refeiTed to.* 
Species VIT.— Platyrhopalus Mellii. Westvo. 
(Plate 88, fig. 2.) 
PI. rufo-piceus, clytris castaneis latissimis fere qiiadratis, antennarum clava compressa fere 
circulare, basi exterue anguUiin formanti, pedibus latissimis. 
Long. corp. lin. 4j; lat. elytr. lin, 2^. 
Plat. Mellii, West^v. Linn. Trans, xvi. p. 685. Trans. Ent. Soc., IL, pi. x., fig. 4. Guerin, 
Iconogr. Regne An. Ins, pi. 40, fig. 11. 
Habitat Malabaiia. Mus. Melly, Gory, &c. 
This singular insect in its dilated form approaches the Cerapteri, 
but in all its essential characters it belongs to the present genus. 
It is subconvex, and of a rufo-piceous colour, with the upper 
surface of the body finely and distantly punctured, shining, very 
slightly setose, and with the head and prothorax lower than the 
back of the elytra; the head is small, rather glossy, with the 
anterior margin emarginate, and the hind part of the head 
narrowed into a neck; the clava of the antennm is very large, 
neai'ly circular, and compressed—that is, the anterior or upper 
face is slightly concave, whilst the posterior or inferior surface is 
slightly convex, especially in the middle; the entire margin is 
acute, and with three very minute ciliated tubercles in the upper 
part of the margin a little before its extremity; the base of the 
clava is also produced in a somewhat square lobe at its under angle. 
The maxillse are furnished with a minute filiform appendage 
analogous to the inner maxillary palpi of the Carabidse, M’hich in 
the specimen examined by me was twisted, giving the appearance 
of being articulated in the middle ; the maxillary palpi are large, 
with the second joint broad, and strongly produced at its inner 
extremity. The labial palpi are cylindrical, hirsute, and with 
the middle joint rather larger than the apical one- The pro¬ 
thorax is short, transverse, nearly twice as broad as the head, 
• In consequence of this intelligence, the publication of the following number (which will 
complete the Monograph of the Paussidse, as well as the present work itself), will be deferred 
until after the arrival of Captain Boys’s parcel. ' 
