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their apices rounded and unarmed. Intermediate and poste- 

 rior femora end in short rounded processes, and may be said 

 to be unarmed. The femora have each a short carina on each 

 side near their distal extremity. The antennas in the male are 

 but very little longer than the body. The body is almost 

 wholly glabrous and furnished with some widely scattered 

 long hairs. 



From Phormesium^ to which the genus is perhaps even more 

 closely allied, it differs by the carinated tibiee, the rounded 

 apices of the elytra, and the two additional swollen joints of 

 the antenna3 in the male. 



Hormathus cinctellusj sp. n. 

 Ibidion cinctelhini, Cbevr., MS. 



Niger, nitidus ; capite punctato ; prothorace dorso leviter tri-tiiber- 

 culato ; elj'tris chalybeato-cyaueis, vix pvmctatis, singulis ad 

 medium fascia transversa, nee suturam nee marginem attingente, 

 flavescenti-alba ; pedibus nigris, basi pedunculatis ; antennis 

 fuscis,( S )corpore vixlongioribus,articuli3 tertio ad quintum valde 

 incrassatis, ( 5 ) corpore multo brevioribus. 



Long. 5|-7 mm. 



Hah. St. Domingo. 



Head rather thickly punctured. Prothorax and elytra 

 destitute of punctures, excepting the pits from which the few 

 long scattered hairs come oiF. Elytra steel-blue, glossy, with 

 purplish tints ; each with an ivory-like transverse spot or 

 fascia at about the middle of its length. Antenna with the 

 scape punctured, with, in the male, the third joint much 

 longer and thicker than the scape and attenuate at its base, 

 the fourth joint short, ovate, the fifth longer than the fourth, 

 fusiform, the sixth and following' joints normal, each about 

 equal in length to the fifth. Body underneath glabrous, 

 excepting a faint silvery-grey pubescence on the lateral 

 pieces of the mesothorax and on the postero-lateral angles of 

 the metasternum. 



Phryneta verrucosa. 



Lamia verrucosa, Drury, Exotic Insects, vol. i. p. 90, pi. xl. fig. 3. 



Lamia sternutator, Fabr. Syst. Eleuth. ii. p. 293. 



Phryneta melanoptera, Thoms. Rev. et Mag. de Zoologie, 1878, p. 65. 



This interesting species appears to have been omitted from 

 Gemminger and Harold's Catalogue. The genus to which 

 it belongs is peculiarly an African one ; but the present species 



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