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(257) 2. * A pate rufitarsis. Red-footed Apate. 



A. f rufitarsis J nigra cylindrical prothoracis scabri basi, antennis, tarsis, elytrisque rufis : his humeris nigris. 

 Red-footed Apate, black, cylindrical ; base of the rough prothorax, antennae, tarsi, and elytra, rufous ; the latter with black 

 shoulders. 



Length of the body If line. 



Two specimens taken in the Expedition. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body cylindrical, black, hairy underneath. Head hairy; face concave; antennas pale testaceous: 

 prothorax rufous posteriorly, granulated especially anteriorly ; elytra punctured in rows, rufous, with 

 a black humeral blotch : tarsi rufous. 



The face of the other sex is probably plane ; and the prothorax with more prominent points and 

 asperities. 



xxii. * Subgenus Lepisomus. Kirb- 



Prothorax anteriorly narrower, subconstricted, not armed with elevated points or denticles. 

 Elytra inflexed at the base, covered with minute depressed hairs, resembling little scales. 



This subgenus agrees with a genuine Apate in its eyes, antennae, legs, &c. but the prothorax is 

 of a different shape, never asperated with rugosities, points, or denticles, and like Cis, the body, 

 particularly the elytra, is covered with scale-like hairs. This little group, if placed between Tomicus 

 and Apate, seems rather to interrupt the series of Xyloptrypa with an elevated and asperated pro- 

 thorax ; it may perhaps be best regarded as branching off from the latter in another direction ? 



(258) 1. * Apate (Lepisomus) rufipennis. Red-winged A. Lepisomus. 



A. L. (rufipennis) nigra, punctulata,fronte bituberculata, antice transverse depressa, prothorace carinato ; ore, antennis, elytris, 

 pedibusque, rufescentibus. 



Red-winged A. Lepisomus, black, minutely punctured; front bituberculate, anteriorly with a transverse depression ; protho- 

 rax ridged ; mouth, antennas, elytra, and legs, rufescent. 



PLATE VIII, FIG. 2. 



Length of the body 1^ line. 



Two specimens taken in Lat. 65°. 



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