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their apices rounded and unarmed. Intermediate and poste- 
rior femora end in short rounded processes, and may be said 
to be unarmed. The femora have each a short carina on each 
side near their distal extremity. The antennae in the male are 
but very little longer than the body. The body is almost 
wholly glabrous and furnished with some widely scattered 
long hairs. 
From Phormesium , to which the genus is perhaps even more 
closely allied, it differs by the carinated tibiae, the rounded 
apices of the elytra, and the two additional swollen joints of 
the antennae in the male. 
Hormathus cinctellus , sp. n. 
Ibidion cinctellum , Chevr., MS. 
Niger, nitidus ; capite punctato ; prothorace dorso le viter tri-tuber- 
culato ; elytris chalybeato-cyaneis, vix punctatis, singulis ad 
medium fascia transversa, nec suturam nec marginem attingente, 
flavescenti-alba ; pedibus nigris, basi pedunculatis ; antennis 
fuscis,( cT )corpore vix longioribus,articulis tertio ad quintum valde 
incrassatis, ( 5 ) corpore multo brevioribus. 
Long. 5|-7 mm. 
Hah . St. Domingo. 
Head rather thickly punctured. Prothorax and elytra 
destitute of punctures, excepting the pits from which the few 
long scattered hairs come off. Elytra steel-blue, glossy, with 
purplish tints ; each with an ivory-like transverse spot or 
fascia at about the middle of its length. Antennae with the 
scape punctured, with, in the male, the third joint much 
longer and thicker than the scape and attenuate at its base, 
the fourth joint short, ovate, the fifth longer than the fourth, 
fusiform, the sixth and following joints normal, each about 
equal in length to the fifth. Body underneath glabrous, 
excepting a faint silvery-grey pubescence on the lateral 
pieces of the mesothorax and on the postero-lateral angles of 
the metasternum. 
Phryneta verrucosa . 
Lamia verrucosa , Drury, Exotic Insects, vol. i. p. 90, pi. xl. fig. 3. 
Lamia sternutatory Fabr. Syst. Eleuth. ii. p. 293. 
Phryneta melanoptera , Thoms. Rev. et Mag. de Zoologie, 1878, p. 65. 
This interesting species appears to have been omitted from 
Gemminger and Harold’s Catalogue. The genus to which 
it belongs is peculiarly an African one ; but the present species 
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