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arranged in longitudinal rows towards the apex, inter- 

 SjDaces between these stride faintly convex, subcostate near 

 the outer margin ; on the rest of the surface they are 

 transversely wrinkled ; the rufous band extends on the 

 outer border from below the shoulder to beyond the middle, 

 irregular on the sides, it narrows towards the suture and 

 terminates just before reaching the latter; the punctures 

 on its surface, together with those on the apical patch, 

 black ; the terminal patch extends across the apex of the 

 elytron, but is separated from the extreme edge by a narroAv 

 black line. Body beneath black, spai-ingly clothed with 

 griseous hairs, sides of the thorax testaceous, the deflexed 

 anterior border of the prosternum pale yellow. Pro- 

 sternum longer than broad, the hinder apex dilated, 

 broadly rounded ; surface rugose-pitnctate. Apical seg- 

 ment of abdomen impressed with a large round fovea, 2 . 



I possess three specimens of this pretty species, all 

 belonging to the female sex ; the male is unknown to me. 



Genus Paracadmus. 



Corpiis elongatum, subcylindricum. Caput breve, ro- 

 tundatum, in thoracem ad oculos insertum ; oculis magnis, 

 modice remotis, subreniformibus, intus profunde et anguste 

 emarginatis ; antennis filiformibus, corpus valde super- 

 antibus, ^, articulo secundo brevissimo, articulo ultimo 

 vix compresso, elongato-ovato. Thorax transversus, 

 convexus, lateribus marginatis, iiTegulariter crenulatis. 

 Scutellum cuneiforme, apice truncato, libero, dorso vix 

 carinato, rugoso-punctato. Elytra anguste oblonga, la- 

 teribus ante medium modice lobatis, limbo iuflexo pone 

 medium angusto, ante apicem desinenti ; supra convexa, 

 circa scutellum abrupte incrassata, rugoso-punctata. Py- 

 gydium exsertum. Pedes sat elongati ; unguiculis basi 

 incrassatis. Prosternum latitudine longior, margine an- 

 tico deflexo, margine postico concavo, utrinque in dentem 

 acutum retrorsum producto. Me so sternum latitudini fere 

 requilongum, apice concavo, angulis posticis oblique pro- 

 ductis, acutis. 



Type Paracadmus lucifugus. 



Separated from Cadmus and allies by the strongly 

 bilobate hinder apex of the prosternum; fi*om Ochrosopsis 

 and Idiocephala by the creuulatcd margin of the thorax. 



