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now in the lierlin Museum, No. 41,583. As Dr. Scluium also possessed the present species, it is not to be
supposed that he would not have perceived the identity of the two insects, if such had been the case.
SPECIES 18 (104)—CEEMASTOCHEILUS lIEXICiNUS.
Niger, opacus, elongatus, rude punctatus, setis brevibus luteis paree obsitus; thoraoe postice utrinque
impresso, lateribus rotundato, angnlis auticis porrectis, acutis, posticis tuberculiforinibus; disco linea abbreviata
media parum impressa; ineuto transverse-rotundato, concavo, margine postieo integro rotundato.
Long. corp. lin. 6.
Habitat; Mexico. Ehrenberg ; in Mus. Berolin. (No. 12,539).
SYN. ; Cremastocheihi-s Mexicamis, Schaum, Germar Zeitschr. iii. p. 256 ; Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1844, Ser. 2,
vol. ii. pi, X, fig. 8 ; Burmeister, Handb. iii. p. 682.
The front of the clypeus is widened, reflexed, and smooth. The prothorax is proportionably broader than in
Cr. variolosiis, more rounded at the sides, the emargination preceding the posterior angles much less distinct,
the anterior lateral angles more porrected, pointed, scarcely raised, and not deeply impressed or grooved within,
and the hinder angles not so much exserted, with their outer extremity raised. The disc is more sparingly
marked with shallow punctures, occasionally with a slight central longitudinal furrow. The elytra ai-e much
longer and proportionably narrower than in Cr. canalicidatus, the length exceeding the width by more than half
the latter, more sparingly marked with very shallow oval punctures emitting fine yellow setai, the punctures near
the lateral margins being rounder and deeper. The seutellimi at the base is very finely and rather closely
punctured, the punctures very shallow, towards the apex they become larger and wider apart, but still very
shallow. The abdominal segments are constricted at the apex, the ventral surface is glossy, punctured, and
luteo-setose. The tarsi are broad,
POSTSOEIPT TO CALLYNOMES,
(Ante, p, 26,)
Since the preceding Monograph of the Cremastocheilides was prepared for the press, a memoir of the Cetoniidie
of the Moluccas and the Sunda Islands has been published by Herr Mohnike, in the Arehiv. fiii-
Naturgeschichte, 37 Jahrg. i, 2.25, in which is given a description and wretched figure of an insect from Java
closely resembling Callymmes ToUeuJiovii, with the name of—•
SPECIES 1 (105)—CHOLEEASTOMA SPONDTLIDEA,
juxta marginem litura parvula a ' Supra plmnbagineo-nigrescens parum nitens, elytris lbida signatis,
subtus nitidior, atra,'
Long. corp. 23 mill. i et ?
The tarsi are described as 4-jointed in both sexes, and the basal joint of the antennce as 'sehr gross.'
I am therefore led to suppose that the insect which Mohnike has described is another species of Callynomes
which name must in strict justice be replaced by that of Cholerastoma, although the author has not described
the more important structures of the maxillaj, mentum, presternum, tibial spurs, and abdominal depression in
the males.
A specimen of the male of this species in the Collection of Mr. Pliggins measures 8|- lines in length; it is
entirely black (except a small oblong spot near the outer margin of each elytron beyond the middle), only
slightly shining, and is destitute of setas. The head and pronotum are very thickly punctured ; the latter lias
its widest part before the middle, and there are only very slight traces of two small impressions on eacli side.
The elytra are coarsely punctured, very slightly costated, and with the disc rugose.
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FAMILY—HISTERIDIE.
GEOTS—TERAPUS. De Marseul,
(Ann. 800. Ent . de France, 4th Ser. torn, ii, 1862, p. 682.)
Of this very anomalous Genus of Histeridaj, established by M. De Marseul upon the unique specimen in the
Collection of Count Mniszech, the long legs with dilated tibiie, the large lateral expansions of the prothorax,
the apparent want of a mesosternum (as in Scapiccelis), and the very wide insertion of the hind legs, are the
most striking distinctions.
SPECIES 1—TERAPUS MNISZEGHI. De Marseul.
(Op. cit. p. 682, pi. X, gen. XLV, fig. i.)
' Oblongus, postice gibbus, nigro-ohscurus, clava antennarum tarsisque rufis, supra densissime punctatus,
pilis rufis ; fronte concava stria brevi utrinque, clypeo angusto, margine elevato ; pronoto angulis anticis reflexis
obtusis, margine incrassato, inciso, fossa utrinque unituberculata ; elytris humeris gibbosis ; propygidio basi
ovatim atro-holoserieeo, postice circumpunctato bituberculato ; pygidio parum convexo basi punctato ; prosterno
basi exciso, extus margine elevato, lobo lato punctato ; mesosterno bisinuato ; tibiis anticis obtuse, intermediis
acute extus angulatis, posticis contortis extus bitubereulatis.'
Long. corp. 3 i mill. ; larg. 3i mill.
Habitat ; Mexico. In Mus, Com. Mniszech.
SPECIES 2—TBRAPUS MAESEULII. Westw.
PLATE III, FIG. 9.
Niger nitidissimus, minute punctatissimus ; pronoto angulis anticis rotundato-dilatatis, lievissimis, dorso sulco
lato profundo medio, angulis posticis elevatis, sulco transverso e parte antica separatis ; elytris breviter ovatis,
sutura depressa, singuli medio disci elevato, podice sinuato ; pedibus elongatis ; tibiis omnibus extus pone
medium angulatis, apice extus sulcatis pro receptione tarsovum recurvorum.
Long, corp. lin. 2.
Habitat ; Amazonia (Bates). In Mus. Ilopeiano Oxoniae.
I have dedicated this curious insect to the indefatigable monographer of the Histeridse.
GENUS—CHLAMYDOPSIS. Westw.
(Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond, 1869, part iv, August, p, 318,)
Genus Chlaniydcm habitu et Ectrephidem certo modo simulans ; sed inter Byrrhidas (proesertim Murmidium.
Leach = Ccutocerum, Schüpp,) et líisteridas intermedium. Corpus parvum, contractum, fere globosum ;
pedibus contractilibus, contra latera corporis arete applicatis ; prothorax antice profunde ineisus pro receptione
capitis ; caput in prothorace fere omnino retractile (partes oris in individuis unicis hand examinatai) ; antenna^
9-artieulata3, articulo primo magno subtrigono, septem proximis graeilibus, 4-8 minutis, nono (vel clava) pra3-
cedentibus sex longitudine ¡equali vel longiore, exarticulato ; elytra humeris valde gibbosis, gibbositate in
medio intus luteo-setosa ; metasternum maximum, coxis pedmn posticorum haud prominulis ; pedes subelongati,
tibiis depressis pro receptione tarsorum simplicium et 5-articulatorum j abdomen segmento basali
máximo.
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