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Genus CYETOZEMIA. 



Cyrtozemia, Pascoe, Journ. Linn. Soc.,Zool. xi, 1872, p. 443. 

 Type, Cyrtozemia dispar, Pascoe. 



Head exserted, the eyes ovate, lateral and slightly prominent, 

 the forehead narrower than the base of the rostrinn. Bostrnm 

 separated from the head by an angulated stria, about as long as 

 the head, the scrobes subdorsal, foveiform in front and continuing 

 broadly and very sballowly up to the eyes, having a slight carina 

 on each side, the apex shallowly emarginate, the mandibles 

 slightly prominent and with a distinct scar, the mentum sub- 

 quadrate and filling the buccal cavity, the submentum simply 

 sinuate and without any peduncle. Antenna} elongate, slender, 

 inserted at the apex, the scape clavate, scarcely curved, exceeding 

 the anterior margin of the thorax ; the funicle with joint 1 very 

 long, a little longer than 2 and 3 together, 2 longer than 3, 3 

 longer than the others which are subequal, the club narrowly 

 elongate, 4-iointed. Protliora.v more or less transverse, truncate 

 at base and apex, the gular margin not sinuate. Scutelhmi in- 

 visible. Ehjtra subtruncate at the base, without humeral angles, 

 the margin deeply sinuate above the posterior coxce, with 10 punc- 

 tate striae. Stenumi. with the front coxse much nearer the anterior 

 margin of the presternum ; the mesosternum with its side-pieces 

 more or less fused and indistinct, the epimeron small, the median 

 coxae rather widely separated ; the metasternum slightly longer 

 than the median coxae, its episternum fused with it, the hind coxae 

 verv widely separated and touching the elytra. VeJiter with the 

 intercoxal process very broad and truncate, segments 2, 3 and 4 

 subequal, the incision between 1 and 2 deep and curved. Legs 

 slender, very dissimilar in the two sexes, the femora clavate, the 

 corbels of the hind tibiae open, the tarsi with joint 2 longer than 

 broad, 3 broadly lobate, 4 rather longer than 1, the claws small 

 and connate at the base. 



Range. India. 



222. Cyrtozemia dispar, Pasc. 



Cyrtozemia disixtr, Pascoe,* Journ. Linn. Soc, ZooL, xi, 1872, 

 p. 448, pi. X, %. 9. 



Colour black, with very fine recumbent grey pubescence, the 

 prothorax with a narrow lateral stripe of minute whitish scales, 

 the elytra with a similar marginal stripe reaching the Sth stria 

 and extending from the base to behind the middle ; the pubescence 

 and scaling frequently abraded. 



S . Head closely punctate, the forehead shallowly impressed 

 and with a short central furrow. Eostrum about as long as broad, 

 the sides almost parallel, the genae scarcely dilated but tlae margin 



