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and shoulders greyish, the base and band behind the middle dark brown; 
head and prothorax with a close, rough, tawny-brown pile, irregularly 
punctured, the latter with a small glabrous oblong mark on its disk; 
elytra scarcely twice as long as the head and prothorax together, some- 
what ovate, gradually broader from the shoulder to beyond the middle, 
when they suddenly slope from all sides to the apex; on the disk of 
each elytron two rows of large spinous tubercles, and at the side two 
lesser rows, the apex slightly divaricate ; body beneath, legs, and scape 
with a close umber-brown pile, with scattered short white hairs; an- 
tennze brownish, the bases of the joints paler. Length 6 lines. 
OPSIES. 
Caput antice oblongo-quadratum, convexum, tuberibus antenniferis basi 
approximatis. Oculi parvi, reniformes. Labrum brevissimum. Antenne 
corpori vix sequales, subattenuatee, scapo elongato-subcylindrico, squa- 
mulis vestito, articulo tertio multo breviore, quarto tertio fere squali, 
ceteris brevioribus et snbequalibus. Prothorax capite latior, oblongus, 
lateribus rotundatus, dente obtuso post medium sito, disco inzequali. 
Elytra ovata, tuberculata, humeris nullis. Prosternum angustum, de- 
pressum; mesosternum declive. Acetabula antica, anguste angulata. 
Abdomen breviter triangulare. Pedes subelongati; femora vix clavata ; 
tibie elongate ; tarsorwm articulo ultimo mediocri. 
M. Cheyrolat has published a near ally of this genus under the 
name of Parmena bufo, but which differs in its slender antenne 
with a short subpyriform scape, and the third and fourth joints so 
long as to equal the seven following together*. The species de- 
scribed below has a close superficial resemblance to it, but may be 
at once known from all the other genera of the Dorcadioninet by 
its scape, which nearly equals in length the third and fourth joints 
together. 
* This genus may be named and characterized as follows :— 
APOMEMPSIS. 
Caput antice quadratum, tuberibus antenniferis approximatis. Ocwli fere divisi. 
Antenne corpore breviores, scapo breviusculo, subpyriformi, articulis tertio 
quartoque longissimis, cxteris brevibus et subaqualibus. Pa/porwin articulo 
ultimo precedente non longiore. Prothorax rugosus, oblongus, antice angus- 
tior, lateribus dentatus. Hlytra tuberculata, ovata, medio elevata, postice 
declivia, angulis anticis obsoletis. Pro- et meso-sterna simplicia. Acetabula 
antica angulata. ars omnes xquales. 
Type, Parmena bufo, Chevrolat. 
+ Another genus of this group has been lately characterized by M. James 
Thomson (Essai, &c. p. 23) under the name of Leprosoma, which I propose to 
change to Lepromoris, the former name having been previously used for a genus 
of Hemiptera. The type is Z. gibva, Brullé (Lamia). 
