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Some individuals of tliis species aro much darker Uian others, uud 

 the spots more eoiilhieiit. 



Ahnjna vomicosa. 



A. robusta, p-isosronto pilosa, iuanilisni|jrris irrorata ; sculcllo g-risrsccntc ; 

 tarsuruni articulis duobus bjisalibus albis. 



Ilah. Cambodia. 



Pitchy-black, with a short palo-nr^'vish (or inclining to yellow) pil<j 

 sprinkled with numerous small black spots; head rather broad in front, 

 the spots irrcprular and confused ; prothorax subtransverse, with three 

 obtuse tubercles on the disk (2.1), the posterior divided by a deeply 

 impressed lon«ritudinal line, the two lat<^'ral teetii very distinct; scu- 

 tellum j.Teyish ; elytra rather short, broadest at the shoulders, slifxhtly 

 depressed behind the scutellum, clothed with a pali-{rreyish pile, 

 slightly mottled with a darker grey, and thickly sprinkled with small 

 black spots, which are formed almost entirely by the pimctures ; an- 

 tennre scarcely longer than the body, the basal joint prejish, spotted 

 with black, the rest black, except the second and bases of the succeeding 

 ones to the ninth inclusive which are ashy-white ; eyes and mandibles 

 dark brown ; legs grejdsh, spotted vai\\ black, the tarsi black, the two 

 basal joints white ; body beneath covered with a coarse greyish pile, 

 the sides of the abdomen spotted -with black. Length 10 lines. 



The difference between this species and the last is greater than 

 might be imagined from a comparison of the two descriptions, but it 

 may be rendered more obyious by remarking that, while the spots are 

 larger in A. pardaJis,thcy have invariably around the puncture, which 

 forms the centre of each, a circle of black pile, and that these spots 

 often become confluent, having a more or less patchy appearance ; 

 but in A. vomicosa the spots are confined chiefly to the punctures, 

 which then almost entirely constitute the spots ; the two basal joints 

 of the tarsi, nearly of a pure white, offer a remarkable contrast to the 

 deep black of the remainder. 



From Abryna, as originally proposed by Mr. Newman, I think it 

 will be necessary to separate those species which approach Dorcadion 

 in fonn and, except veiy partially in one or two of them, in the 

 total absence of pubescence. For these I propose the terra ''Apro- 

 phata," with the following characters : — 



Apbophata. 



Head rounded, not dilated below the eyes in the male, the vertex and 

 front very convex. Eyes deeply emarginate. Antennjc scarcely longer 

 than the body, not arising from tubercles, the basal joint short, slightly 

 incrassated upwards, the third joint longest, the fourth nearly as long, 

 the remainder shorter and subequal. Prothorax more or less quadrate. 



