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Legs short and rather stout. Tibize with the apex truncate somewhat obliquely outwards, 
but much less so than in the Brachypepli, and the channel for the reception of the tarsi 
slight. Tarsi short, and last article short. Claws simple. 
Position and Affinities.—BnAcnvrEPLUs. ADOCIMUS. CiLiavus. 
OnTHOGRAMMA. 
ADOCIMUS BELLUS. (Plate XXXVI. fig. 5.) 
Elongatus, oblongus, parallelus, depressus, planus, nitidus, glaber, aurantiaco-flavus, 
elytris nigris. Long. 33 lin., lat. { lin. 
Habitat in insula Mysol prope Ceram. 
Elongate, oblong, parallel, depressed, flat, shining, glabrous, bright orange-yellow, 
with the elytra black, except a narrow edging round the scutellum. Head smooth and 
impunctate. Club of the antennz fuscous. Thorax transverse, broader than long, very 
flat, smooth, and impunctate, the sides and posterior angles rounded, the anterior angles 
apparently rounded, but declinate near the point, and actually right-angled. Scutellum 
rather broad, impunctate, pentangular, the apical angle and angles next it rounded. 
Elytra clear black, with a narrow shade of yellow next the scutellum ; smooth, with four 
or five faint impunctate lines within the shoulder, inclined obliquely inwards from the 
base; beyond these impunctate oblique lines there are three or four faint rows of punc- 
tures, becoming less oblique towards the apex, which is truncate, straight, with the 
exterior angles rounded; base straight and shoulders square. Abdomen above with the 
fimbriz very marked, the dorsal ring rounded, thickened on the margins, and extending 
rather broadly across the base of each segment; the segments themselves prominent, 
slightly punctate, more so towards the sides, and with their edges thick and rounded, 
and with a deep stigmatic depression on each side; below with a similar fold or ring, 
and fimbriz and stigmatic depression. 
From the island of Mysol, near Ceram. Collected by Mr. Wallace. A single specimen 
is in the British Museum. 
Genus CILLÆUS. 
Laporte, Etud. Ent. p. 133 (1835). 
Erichs. in Germ. Zeitschr. iv. 247 (1843). 
Lacordaire, Histoire des Insectes, Coléoptéres, ii. 297 (1843). 
Caput sulcis antennariis. Labrum integrum. Oculi parvi, haud basin capitis attingentes. Elytra striata 
vel seriatim. punctata. Abdomen elongatum, supra segmentis tribus expositis, segmentis primis 
duobus brevissimis, reliquis longioribus; maribus? segmentulo anali ventrali auctum; fimbriis 
subparallelis et antecedentibus angustioribus. Pedes intermedii coxis distantibus. 
Body long, flat, and depressed, much like a Brachypeplus. The head is large, and 
broader in the males ; and in most of the species the epistome is slightly porrect, although 
in some it is not. The eyes are projecting, small, and not reaching to the base of the 
head. Antennal grooves short, converging, well marked. Antenne not much longer than 
the head; the first article oval, thicker than the rest; the second cylindrical, somewhat 
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