HOMALOMELAS. 



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downwards only in the anterior fifth or so of their length, but 

 provided with very distinct epipleures in all their length, the 

 lateral margin somewhat rounded anteriorly, slightly sinuate 

 near the middle, straighter posteriorly. Front and middle legs 

 moderately long, with the femora subfusiform ; hind legs much 

 longer, with the femora more slender, gradually thickened towards 

 the apex and extended beyond the apex of the elytra, all the 

 femora carinate on each side near the lower border ; first joint 

 of hind tarsus laterally compressed, longer than the remaining 

 joints united. Prosternurn vertically deflexed posteriorly. Front 

 coxa? rounded, with their acetabula closed posteriorly ; acetabula 

 of middle coxae open to the epimera. Abdomen convex, the first 

 ventral segment as long at least as the next two united. 



I have not seen any males of this genus ; and Lacordaire's 

 description of it appears to me to have been based upon female 

 specimens only, which he erroneously considered to be males. 

 The male has probably the antennae relatively longer than in the 

 female, the first abdominal segment not so long in proportion 

 to the other segments, and the sixth segment visible as in the 

 males of the allied genus Blemmya, Pasc. 



262. Homalomelas gracilipes, Parry (Cerambyx), Trans. Ent. Soc. v, 

 p. 184, pi. 18, fig. 6 (1849). 



Black ; prothorax with three pubescent white spots at the base 

 and one at the middle of each side ; scutellum white ; elytra 

 marked each with two pubescent white spots placed obliquely at 

 the middle, the outer spot farther back 

 than the inner one, and with a trans- 

 verse white spot or band a little before 

 the apex. Head rather densely punc- 

 tate, grooved above between the eyes. 

 Antennae of the $ extended by nearly 

 the last joints past the apex of the 

 elytra ; first joint densely rugulose- 

 punctate ; fourth much shorter than the 

 third and but little shorter than the 

 fifth ; sixth to tenth compressed, angu- 

 late anteriorly at the apex. Prothorax 

 widest at base, a little longer than 

 broad, covered above with fine trans- 

 verse ridges, those on the anterior half 

 more or less straight and those on the 

 posterior half strongly sinuate. Elytra 

 subnitid, except near the base where 

 they are rather densely punctate and 

 dull ; each with an obtuse carina that 

 runs obliquely backwards from the 

 shoulder and ends on the inner part of the disc a little in front of 

 the pre-apical white band, this carina densely and rather strongly 



Fig. 87. 



Homalomelas gracilipes, 

 Parry, $. X f. 



