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culo articulo ultimo elongate ; prothorace vix oblongo, utrinque irre- 

 gulariter rotundato, supra rugulis intricatis munlto, in medio inacqua- 

 liter sulcato ; scutello parvo, triangulari ; elytris medio paulo am- 

 pliatis, postice abrupte declivibus, sulcato-punctatis, sulcis rugis de- 

 nudatis transversis divisis, cum ipsis puncta quadrata formantibus, 

 interstitiis 3. 5. 7- elevatis, illo postice tuberculo valido instructo, duo- 

 bus exterioribus arcuatis, extimo in medio elevato ; corpore infra pedi- 

 busque pilis adspersis. Long. 8 lin. (rost. incl.). 

 liab. North China. 



la very fresh specimens the scales so densely cover the derm 

 that the sculpture here described is very imperfectly seen. This 

 species, which by its tuberculate elytra is veiy distinct, is known 

 m the Paris collections by the name here adopted. li is some- 

 times clouded with brown above. 



Ei'isoMUS icoNicus. E. ovatus, niger, squamis plerumque griseis se- 

 juncte tectus, squamis elongatis vage interjectis ; rostro latitudine 

 baud longiore, medio fortiter sulcato, sulcis lateralibus fere obsoletis ; 

 scapo breviusculo, sensira valide crassiore, curvato ; funiculo brevi, 

 articulo ultimo clavaque nigris ; prothorace transverso, utrinque paulo 

 rotundato, supra trisulcato, lateribus vage punctato-impresso, fusce- 

 scente ; scutello inviso ; elytris latitudine sesquilongioribus, modice 

 conrexis, lateraliter rotundatis, remote sulcato-punctatis, interstitiis 

 convexis, regione basali posticeque griseis, caetera fuscescentibus ; 

 corpore infra pedibusque squamis piliformibus adspersis. Long. 3 

 lin. (rost. inch). 

 Hab. Cambodia. 



A slightly aberrant form and the smallest of the genus, having 

 a sliort curved scapo, and the last joint of tho funiclo so closely 

 aduate to the clava as to make the former appear six-jointed. 



Demenica. 

 (OtiorhynchiniB.) 

 nostrum quam caput angustius, basi transversim subsulcatum ; 

 scrohes subterminales, ante oculos evauescentes. Scajnts crassus, 

 squamosus ; funiculus filiformia, 7-articulatus, articulis duobus 

 basalibus longiusculis, caeteris obcouicis ; clava ovalis, distincta. 

 OcuU oblongi, vix prominuli. JElytra basi truncata. Caetera ut 

 in JEpisomo. 



Like Antinia, this genus has the club distinct from the funicle ; 

 in this, as well as in the narrower rostrum and truncate base of 

 tho elytra not projected on to the prothorax, it differs from ^;j- 

 somus. In Simallus, another allied genus, the club is so closely 



