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

 gulariter rotundato, supra rugulis intricatis raunito, in medio inaiqua- 

 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.). 

 Hab. North China. 



In 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 very distinct, is known 

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

 times clouded with brown above. 



Episomus iconicus. E. ovatus, niger, squamis plerumque griseis se- 

 juncte tectus, squamis elongatis vage interjectis ; rostro latitudine 

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

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

 articulo ultimo clavaque nigris ; prothorace transverso, utrinque paulo 

 rotundato, supra tri sulcato, 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 short curved scape, and the last joint of the funicle so closely 

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



Demenica. 

 (OtiorhynchinsD.) 

 Bostrum quam caput angustius, basi transversim subsulcatum ; 

 scrobes subterminales, ante oculos evanescentes. Scapus crassus, 

 squamosus ; funiculus filiformis, 7-articulatus, articulis duobus 

 basalibus longiusculis, caeteris obconicis ; clava ovalis, distincta. 

 Oculi oblongi, vix prominuli. Elytra basi truncata. Caetera ut 

 in Episomo. 



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

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

 the elytra not projected on to the prothorax, it differs from Epi- 

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



