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b'. First antennal joint re.ncliing to 



front margin of protliorax or 



bevoud. 



a'. Genfe long; first antennal joint 



reaching beyond front margin 



of prothorax Capnolymma, p. 73. 



b^. Geupe shorter ; first antennal 

 joint not reaching beyond front 



margin of protliorax Apiocephalus, p. 74. 



b'. Protliorax not tuberculate at sides; 



antenna} contiguons to eyes Oaraphia, p. 75. 



b. Apterous in both sexes ; metathorax 



very short ; eyes small, entire Teledapus, p. 77. 



B. Eyes finely facetted. 



a. Prothorax tuberculate at the sides .... Oxymirus, p. 78. 



b. Prothorax not tuberculate at the sides. 

 a'. Head gradually narrowed behind; 



eyes entire ; elytra with short spine 



near each shoulder Rhondia, p. 79. 



b'. Head abruptly narrowed behind : eyes 

 emarginate ; elytra without humeral 

 spine. 

 a^. Hind tarsi very long and slender, 

 with first joint longer than re- 

 maining joints united. 

 a^. Antennne not broadly dilated, 



nor strongly serrated LeptL'RA, p. 81. 



b'. Antenn:e broadly dilated, strong- 

 ly serrated Ephies, p. 87. 



b-. Hind tarsi not very long, first 

 joint shorter than second and 

 third united ; elytra dilated be- 

 hind and rounded at the apex . . Pyrocalymsia, p. 88. 



Genus APATOPHYSIS. 



Apatophvsis, C/ieirolat, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1860. p. 304 ; Lacord. 

 Gen. Coleopt. ix, p. 234 (1869). 



Type, A. toocotoides, Chevr., a, species from Algeriii. 



Mange. North Africa, Turkestan, Persia, Balucliistau, Kashmii*, 

 Tibet and China. 



(S . Head exserted, narrowed very slightly from behind the 

 eyes ; eyes large, transverse, extending on to the ventral surface, 

 coarsely facetted, more or less emarginate in front ; front short 

 subvertical ; antennal supports slightly raised, the sockets facing 

 outwards ; gula produced anteriorly forms a sliort mentigerous 

 process. Antennae longer than the body ; first joint slightly 

 curved, gradually thickened towards apex, not reaching past the 

 hind border of the eye ; third shorter than the fourth, which is 

 shorter than the fifth ; fifth to tenth subequal, compressed to a sharp 

 edge in front and angulate at the apex ; eleventh longer than the 

 tenth. Prothorax witli a more or less acute tubercle on each 

 side and some feebly raised tubercles on the disc. Mesonotuui 

 with undivided stridulatory area. Elytra much broader than the 

 prothorax, more than twice as long as their width aci'oss the 



