Species of Indvin Ciirciilioiiidge. 193 



Subfamily Antsonominm. 

 Genus Onvchocnemis, nov. 



Head exserted, subconical ; tlie eyes laternl, small, almost 

 circular. Roatrum broad, Hutteued (lorso-veutrally, longer 

 than the head or the front tibia, almost straight, deflected, 

 forming a continuous line with the head, and with the apical 

 margin entire ; the scrobes narrow and deep, beginning at 

 about one-third from the apex and continued obliquely to 

 l)eneath the base of the rostrum ; the mentum small, sub- 

 quadrate, about as long as its supporting peduncle, convex, 

 impuuctate, and very shining. ^■J«/6'»n(e short, geniculate ; 

 the scape almost straight, clavate, reaching the mitldle of 

 the eye ; the funicle 7-jointed, joint 1 swollen and longer 

 than any of the others, 2 subconical and as long as broad, 

 the remainder strongly transverse, very closely packed, and 

 rapidly widening outwardly, joint 7 being closely annexed 

 to the clulj, which is broadly ovate and 3-jointed. Fro- 

 thorax without postocular lobes, and with the base bisinuate. 

 Scutellum distinct, circular. Ehjtra oblong, broader than 

 the prothorax, entirely covering the pygidium, with distinct 

 shoulders and ten striae. Legs short and stout; the hind 

 coxre ovate, not reaching the edge of elytra ; the femora 

 motlerately clavate and not toothed, the hind pair not ueai'ly 

 reaching the apex of the elytra ; the til)i;e almost straight, 

 slightly compressed, strongly uncinate at the apex, and also 

 with a short sharp mucro projecting perpendicularly from 

 the inner angle ; the tarsi broad, joint 2 transverse, 3 

 broadly lobate, 4 short, the lower surface clothed with fine 

 })ale pubescence, which is sparse on the two basal joints, 

 the claws very small and connate at the b;isc. Sternum : 

 the prosternum very short, with the front margin shallowly 

 sinuate, the coxse in the middle and narrowly separated ; 

 the mesosternum with theepimeranot ascending and broadly 

 separating the episterna from the elytra, the intercoxal pro- 

 cess broadly truncate at the apex; the raetasternum between 

 the coxse al)out as long as the middle coxae, the episterna 

 comparatively broad. Venter with the intercoxal process 

 broadly rounded, the two basal segments fused together and 

 delimited only by an almost straight shallow stria, the inter- 

 mediate segments not angulated externally, 2 almost as loig 

 as 3+4 in the- middle, and 5 but little longer than 4. 



Type, Onychornemis careyce, ^^. xi. , ' 



Allied to the European Bradybatus, Germ,, and the South- 

 African Thuvmobius, Sehh, The former genus differs iu its 



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