APOLEÖN. 51 



NOTE XL 

 DESCRIPTION OF A NEAV GENUS OF BOSTRYCIIIDJ]. 



BY 



the Rev. H. S. GORHAM. 



Apoleon , g. u. 



Caput prominens , antennae decem-articulatae. 



Labrum hauddiscretum; inandihulae validae, apicihus dentatis. 



Prothorax lateribus angidatis , angulis suheleoatis , basi 

 .contracto , antice submuricato ^ tuberculari. 



Coxae anticae contiguae , tibiae anticae muticae. 



Elytra suhaeqxialia , apice haud declivia. 



This genus with something of the general appearance 

 and exposed head of the new world genus Polycaon , is in 

 its details nearer to Apate. The peculiar structure of the 

 prothorax and the nearly smooth elytra remove it at once 

 from all other Bostrychidae. 



The head is exserted very much as in Polycaon but is 

 not so wide, being very much narrower than the thorax; 

 the antennae are ten-jointed and the club is long and lax , 

 the terminal joint being as long , or nearly so as the two 

 preceeding it, compressed and faintly sinuous. 



The mandibles are not so acutely pointed as are those of 

 Polycaon , and hence when shut their tips would not overlap , 

 but they are massive , and with a blunt notch. The palpi 

 are as usual , nearly simple , i. e. a little compressed , and 

 a little truncate at the tips. 



The thorax is broader than long, the back forms a 



Notes from the Leyden Museuin, "Vol. VII. 



