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1. Asyngenes chalceolus. 
Parvus, fusco-castaneus, zeneo-micans, pilis longis vestitus ; thorace crebre sed discrete punctato, spatio dorsali 
levi; elytris subtilissime griseo-pubescentibus et parce irregulariter sed sublineatim punctatis, hic illic 
rugosulis, stria suturali distincte impressa. ; 
Long. 13-2 lin. 
Hab. Guatemaa, San Gerdnimo (Champion). 
Group DESMIPHORINI, 
The insects composing this group are of elongate cylindrical form, with lateral 
thoracic tubercles, widely divergent claws (at right angles to the axis of the tarsi), and 
short forehead with well-developed eyes. Including in the group, Lacordaire’s Apoda- 
syides, which agree in these characters, we have an assemblage of genera for the most 
‘part remarkable for the long pubescence with which they are clothed, sometimes in the 
form of eccentric tufts. In some genera the antenne only are densely hairy. 
DESMIPHORA. 
Desmiphora, Serville, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1835, p. 62. 
Sixteen species of this curious genus have been described, all from Tropical America. 
1. Desmiphora fasciculata. (Tab. VIII. fig. 8.) 
Cerambyx fasciculatus, Olivier, Entom. no. 67, p. 96, t. 17. f. 131. 
Lamia fasciculata, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. i. 2, p. 284. 
Desmiphora fasciculata, Serville, loc. cit. p. 63; Bates, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1873, p. 225 * 
Desmiphora gigantea, Thomson, Class. Long. p. 75°. 
Hab. Mzxico, Cordova (Hoge); Nicaragua, Chontales’—Sourn America to South 
Brazil. 
The species varies in size wherever it occurs. D. servillei (White), a local form from 
Espirito Santo, has dark-coloured base of antenne and tarsi. 
2. Desmiphora cirrosa. (Tab. VIII. fig. 9.) 
Desmiphora cirrosa, Erichson, Wiegm. Arch. 1847, i. p. 147; Bates, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1872, p. 201. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Sallé); Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt').—South AMERiIca, 
Peru, Amazons. 
In South Brazil this species is represented by the closely allied D. cucullata (Thoms.), 
' both being distinguished by the front and sides of the thorax and the occiput being 
clothed with dense whitish tomentum. 
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