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brown, base of joints (from the fourth) pallid. Thorax convex, 
but depressed near the hind margin ; lateral tubercle small, 
conical ; colour above bright tawmy, with six blackish-brown 
vittse ; sides ashy, with a broader and paler dusky stripe. Scu- 
tellum pale tawny ochreous. Elytra dilated a little behind the 
middle, depressed, and thickly punctured (except towards the 
apex), rusty tawny, with a few short ashy streaks and a number 
of dark-brown strigse a little behind the middle, the innermost 
of which runs near the suture to the apex : the basal half of the 
suture is broadly margined with dusky, and there is a short 
blackish stripe on each side near the scutellum, and a broad 
patch of similar hue beneath each shoulder, on the upper edge 
of which is an ashy streak, which continues in a curved line 
to the lateral margin, and then to the apex. Body beneath 
ashy ; sides of breast and abdomen dark brown. Legs red- 
dish ; femora and tibise each with a blackish ring round the 
middle. 
I met with the female only of this remarkable species, which 
differs so much from the other Eudesmi in the shortness of the 
muzzle. If the male, when discovered, should be found not to 
possess the swollen third antennal joint, the species will have to 
be removed from this genus. It was found at Ega. 
Genus Xylomimus, nov. gen. 
Body cylindrical, narrow. Head vertical, or slightly inclined 
backwards; muzzle moderately elongated ; sides rounded ; fore- 
head very slightly convex ; eyes small, lower lobe nearly circular. 
Antennse moderately distant at their bases, with inner side of 
antenniferous tubercles prominent and angular; basal joint 
dilated almost from the base, and forming a thick, oblong club, 
with the lower edge slightly waved; third joint one-third longer 
than the first, and also thickened nearly from the base, continu- 
ing of the same thickness to the apex, furnished on the under- 
side with a fringe of long bristles ; fourth joint slender, slightly 
thickened in the middle, and about one-half the length of the 
third ; fifth to seventh joints each about one-half the length of the 
fourth, slender (rest wanting). Thorax cylindrical, longer than 
broad, and deeply wrinkled transversely; lateral tubercles in- 
conspicuous. Elytra linear, obtusely rounded at the apex, sur- 
face free from excrescences ; pro- and meso-sterna plane. Legs 
very short, thighs clavate, tibise broad ; claw- joint of the tarsi 
as long as the remaining joints taken together. 
The species on which this genus is founded presents, from its 
shape and style of coloration, a striking resemblance to a frag- 
ment of a slender decayed branch. 
