The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology . 285 the base of the metasternum, in the centre of which it isangulate, the suture of the mesostemum is invisible ; the legs,anterior tibiae dilated, external edge nearly semicircular,intermediate and posterior tibia? externally triangularly dilated,tarsi short with two claws. Hab. Paraguay (Dr. J. Bohh). Two examples found onthe 5th October, 1892, while it was running over a moundmade by termites. SlTALlA, gen. nov. Corpus oblougum, subparallelum, convexum, bruuneum ; caput interociilos planum, antennis funieulo brevi s


The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology . 285 the base of the metasternum, in the centre of which it isangulate, the suture of the mesostemum is invisible ; the legs,anterior tibiae dilated, external edge nearly semicircular,intermediate and posterior tibia? externally triangularly dilated,tarsi short with two claws. Hab. Paraguay (Dr. J. Bohh). Two examples found onthe 5th October, 1892, while it was running over a moundmade by termites. SlTALlA, gen. nov. Corpus oblougum, subparallelum, convexum, bruuneum ; caput interociilos planum, antennis funieulo brevi seusira incrassato, clavaovali baud compressa; pronotum supra convexum; elytris cari-natis (fig. 3 cZ); propygidiuin postice acuminatum ; pygidium deelive;prosternum basi incisum, bistriatum ; mesosternum iu mediominute productum ; tibia) lata?, fossa tarsali parum lata, subrecta,leviter exarata. While establishing the above genus for the reception ofParatropus Severing Lew. (Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 142, 1892), I have availed myself of M. G. Severins kind FLr.


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