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One of the two new species of Cacoihninae described hereafter represents a 

 distinct tj'pe for which it is necessary to erect a new genus. This new genus is 

 distinguislied from Cacodmus and Loxaspis as follows : 



1. Cacodmus: bristles long', most of the lateral ones of the pronotnm longer 

 than the first segment of the antenna. Tibiae without psendo-joints. Second 

 segment of proboscis longer than fourth. 



2. Ap/imnia gen. nov. : bristles shorter than in Cacodmus, onl}' a small 

 number of the lateral ones of the pronotum longer than the first antennal segment. 

 Second segment of proboscis shorter than fourth. Hind-tibia witli distinct 

 psendo-joint, mid-tibia with indistinct one, and fore-tibia without pseudo-joint.— 

 Genotype : ^1. harys spec. nov. 



4. Loxaspis : distinguished from the preceding genera by all the til)iae having 

 a pseudo-joint and by the hind-tibia being much longer than the hind-femur. 



Cacodmus indicus spec. nov. (text-figs. 1 and 2). 



cJ?. Much slenderer than Cacodmus rillostis Stal (1873). The head exserted 

 (text-fig. 1). The proboscis does not reach to the fore-coxa. The pruthorax is 



Fig. 1. — Cacodmus indirnx. 



broadest in front of the centre, the sides being rounded, though less strongly so 

 than in C. rillosus. The anterior angle of the prothorax does not project so much 

 as in that s[)ecies, and the explauate margin is much narrower. The hairs of the 

 prothorax are long, tliose placed at and near the lateral margins being much longer 

 than the diameter of the eye, as is indicated in the fignre. The elytra are almost 

 twice as broad as they are long, and tlie bristles they bear are about as long as 

 those of the prothorax. The abdomen is densely covered with long bristles, which 

 form six or seven very irregular transverse rows in the centre of the tergites and 

 are even more numerous laterally. Many of the lateral bristles are as long as or 



