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somewhat longitudinally impressed, the intervals between the 

 rows minutely punctate ; body beneath chestnut-brown^ finely 

 punctate ; legs light ferruginous. Length 3 Knes. 



JIymjea. 



Subfamily Apocbtpsin^. 



AntenncB clavatae, art. tertio sequentibus haud longiore. 

 Mentum transversum, antice gradatim angustius; labium comeum. 

 Maanllce lobo exteriore elongato, angustato ; palpi maxillares art. 

 ultimo ovato. 



Head subtriangular, rounded and obtuse anteriorly, subver- 

 tical, inserted into the prothorax nearly as far as the eyes ; 

 the clypeus separated from the front by a deep slightly arched 

 suture ; antennary ridge small, auriform. Eyes conically pro- 

 jecting, round, entire. Antennae exposed at their insertion, 

 subelongate ; scape globose, second joint shortly turbinate, 

 third to the eighth elongate-turbinate, nearly equal in length, 

 ninth and tenth nearly equilaterally triangular, eleventh ovate, 

 pointed, not longer than the tenth, the three forming a depressed 

 club. Mentum transverse, rounded at the sides, gradually and 

 rapidly narrowing towards the insertion of the lower lip, the 

 latter small, rounded, corneous. Maxilte narrow, the inner 

 lobe unarmed. Maxillary palpi long, with the last joint ovate, 

 of the labial shortly cylindrical. Prothorax oblong, narrowed 

 posteriorly, the sides rounded, the flanks confounded with the 

 pronotum, apex and base truncate. Elytra short, ovate, the 

 shoulders obsolete ; epipleura narroAV, vertical ; no Avings. 

 Legs moderate ; femora thickened in the middle ,• tibiae gra- 

 dually stouter towards the apex; tarsi lengthened, slender, 

 the claw-joint moderate. The under parts nearly as in the 

 preceding genus, but the anterior cotyloid cavities very close 

 to the posterior border of the propectus, the mesosternum 

 and metasternum a little longer, the interfemoral process very 

 considerably broader, and the ventral segments gradually de- 

 creasing in length to the fom'th. 



The position of Hi/mcea and Melytra is somewhat doubtful. 

 From the characters of the ^'■Apocryphides,^'' as given by M. 

 Lacordaire*, they seem to me to belong to them. Mr. F. Bates, 

 who has made the Heteromera his especial study, inclines to 

 the opinion [in litf.) that, from the narrow antennary ridges, 

 they are more nearly related to the Strongyliincp.^ and that they 

 form a distinct subfamily. In the 'Genera,' i\\Q, ''^ Aj^ocry- 

 phides'^ are classed among the " Helopides^'' an arrangement 

 to which Dr. Leconte f objects, because of the absence of the 



* Geuera, &c. v. p. 4;',2. t Classif. Col. Xovth Am. p. 218. 



