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lilac or fuscous; posterior femora with a long longitudinal dash, 
a curved one near the apex, three or four apical spots externally, 
and one internally, lilac or fuscous; the long slightly bent tibie 
with two lines of minute, and one of large spots, sometimes also 
an internal line, the tips, spots beneath the first tarsal joint, its 
apex, those of the two succeeding joints, and the claws, black, 
Length, 3 lines. It is at once the largest and finest of its species. 
A specimen taken in the woods on the Derwent; and another 
in Berwickshire, beat out of bushes. 
As will be observed from the detail, this is a true Aphrodes, 
although the shape of the head would at first sight indicate a 
different relationship. 
Geyus [V.—ACUCEPHALUS, Germar. 
1. A. apustus. 
Short, and, contrasted with its affinities, considerably narrowed, 
pale, or clayey-testaceous; face freckled with a brighter tint, dis- 
posed often in the merest rudiments of ribs, a spot in the hollow 
occupied by the antenne, and occasionally a line bordering the 
central part of the face, black; crown above triangular, scarcely 
wrinkled, with a central ridge, on each side of which it sinks 
down, and then rises in two indistinct oblique ridges, one on each 
side, either uniform in line, or often, as well as the thorax and 
elytra, freckled with atoms and minute specks of light brownish ; 
elytra rather abbreviated, with a row of ill-defined dusky spots 
along the costa, and turning round the tip, or uniform with the 
spots near the apex only; wings short, white; abdomen above 
either wholly pale, or varied with deep fuscous or black, the 
edges of all the segments pallid, a widish band at the apex of the 
second, the apical ones, and a stripe down the margins, in which 
lie several triangular brighter spots, brown ; underside concolorous, 
the centre dusky ; legs also concolorous, the tips of the anterior 
tibiee, and of the tarsal joints, blackish ; apex of the hinder femora 
with a patch before the apex, and the inner side of the tibiz, 
black, the spines brown ; apices of the tarsal joints and the claws 
piceous, Length 2—2+ lines. 
