BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURN'. 
1467 
At first sight it would appear as if the phrase “ tarses a 1®*' article 
tres court ” were incousistent with this supposition, — since the 
basal joint of the tarsi in Agapete is decidedly longer than the 
2nd ; but the force of this objection disappears when it is borne 
in mind that the basal joint is decidedly shorter than the following 
two together, and that the genera with which M. Blanchard 
associates Anteros have the basal joint at least equal to the 
following two (that immediately after which M. Blanchard places 
it, — L'alluphyru , — has that joint much longer than the 2nd and 
3rd together). Thus compared the basal joint in Agapete would 
natui’ally be called ‘‘ very short.” 
Parmen'omorpha, gen.nov. 
Gen. Parmence alhnis, sed oculis crasse granulatis. 
The description of Parmena in Lacordaire’s Gen. des Col. ix. p. 
275, exactly tits the small insect for which I propose this new 
name, with the single exception that the eyes (instead of being 
“ subfinely ”) are extremely strongly and coarsely facetted. The 
presence of a small, well-defined, triangular scutellum, and of a 
small sharp spine on either side of the prothorax, together with 
the smaller size of the basal ventral segment (very distinctly shorter 
than the following two together), will separate it from Correstetha, 
the strong sinus of the intermediate tibiae from the Malayan 
Dasyerrus, the prothoracic spines from Byhe. 
P. irregularis, sp.nov. 
Testaceo-ferruginea, capite prothoraceque obscurioribus ; dense 
breviter pubescens et capillis longis erectis sparsim vestita ; 
an tennis (^. I) corpoi-e longioribus, sat robustis; capite prothora- 
ceque rugulosis nee dense nec crasse punctulatis ) hoc utrinque 
pone medium spina laterali parva gracili instructo ; elytris 
lateribu.s basique fortiter nec crebre, disco crassissiiue sparsim, 
punctulatis. [Long. 3, lat. 1 line. 
The sculptui’e of the elytra is not unusual in the Dorcadionulo^ 
— the inner middle part of the disc bearing a few veiy coai-se 
