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terminal joints, the second half as long as the third, and from 

 this they gradually increase in thickness to the eighth or ninth. 

 Prothorax globose. Elytra flattish above, narrowing posteriorly, 

 not bent down at the sides except at the base. Legs of moderate 

 length; femora fusiform. 



Separated from Clytus and allied genera by the form of the 

 elytra, which, consisting mainly only of the disk without the 

 deflected sides, except a little near the shoulders, do not embrace 

 the abdomen. The claviform antennae are less peculiar, being 

 found also in Mecometopus and Rhopalopus, and in a much less 

 degree in Neoclytus, CalanthemiSj &c. The type is Clytus steno^ 

 thyreus (Pasc. Journ. of Ent. i. p. 359), from Batchian. I have 

 another species from Tondano. In this the female differs only 

 in having a more globose prothorax. 



The following genus was proposed by myself in the ' Journal 

 of Entomology,^ ii. p. 246. As the characters by which it is 

 differentiated from Aridcms, J. Thoms., were alone given, I take 

 this opportunity of repeating them, with additions, in a more 

 formal manner. 



Cremys. 

 Antennce muticae, setaceae. 

 Prothorax globosus, basi constrictus. 

 Femora baud clavata. 



Head transverse in front, a slightly elevated line between the 

 eyes terminating in an arched groove above the epistome. Eyes 

 of moderate size. Antennae setaceous, unarmed, the fourth joint 

 shorter than either the preceding or following. Prothorax glo- 

 bose, strongly constricted at the base. Elytra short, rounded at 

 the apices. Legs, except the anterior pair, elongate, the femora 

 slightly fusiform. The rest as in Aridmis, 



The type, Cremys diophthalmus, Pasc, op. cit. i. p. S5S{Clyttis), 

 is of a rich reddish-brown colour, with the apical half of the 

 elytra black and covered with a shot-silky pubescence, and two 

 black spots on the prothorax. It is from Queensland. 



Note. — I have been sharply criticised in a foreign work for 

 declining to adopt the new genera formed at the expense of the 

 old Fabrician genus Clytus. Whilst admitting that I have since 

 gone with the stream, my objection was grounded on the fact 

 that a few species only were selected as the types of new genera 

 out of numerous others, many of which it then became very 

 difficult to locate. I have some fifty unpublished species, and, 

 so far as I can see at present, many of them have such neutral 

 characters that it will be very difficult to assign them to well-de- 

 fined genera. The three Clytoid genera described above have 

 very marked and, in the first two of them, isolated characters. 



