. Coleoptera. Vol. I. [Longicornia. Part I.]. Beetles; Cerambycidae. HOMALOMELAS. 233 downwards only in the anterior fifth or so of their length, but provided with very distinct epipleures in all their length, the lateral margin somewhat rounded anteriorly, .slightly sinuate near the middle, straighter posteriorly. Front and middle legs moderately long, with the femora subfusiform ; hind legs much longer, with the femora more slender, gradually thickened towards the apex and extended beyond the apex of the elytra, all the femora carinate on each side near the lower border ; first joint of hind
. Coleoptera. Vol. I. [Longicornia. Part I.]. Beetles; Cerambycidae. HOMALOMELAS. 233 downwards only in the anterior fifth or so of their length, but provided with very distinct epipleures in all their length, the lateral margin somewhat rounded anteriorly, .slightly sinuate near the middle, straighter posteriorly. Front and middle legs moderately long, with the femora subfusiform ; hind legs much longer, with the femora more slender, gradually thickened towards the apex and extended beyond the apex of the elytra, all the femora carinate on each side near the lower border ; first joint of hind tai'sus laterally compressed, longer than the remaining joints united. Prosternum vertically deflexed posteriorly. Front coxse rounded, with their acetabula closed posteriorly; "acetabula of middle coxse open to the epimera. Abdomen convex, the first ventral segment as long at least as the next two united. I have not seen any males of this genus ; and Lacordaire's description of it appears to me to have been based upon female specimens only, which he erroneously considered to be males. The male has probably the antennse relatively longer than in the female, the first abdominal segment not so long in proportion to the other segments, and the sixth segment visible as in the males of the allied genus Blemmya, Pasc. 262. Homalomelas gracilipes, Parry (Cerambyx), Trans. Ent. Soc. v, p. 184, pi. 18, %. 6 (1849). Black; prothorax with three pubescent white spots at the base and one at the middle of each side; scutellum white; elytra marked each with two white spots placed obliquely at the middle, the outer spot farther back than the inner one, and with a trans- verse white spot or band a little before the apex. Head rather densely punc- tate, grooved above between the eyes. Antennae of the $ extended by nearly the last joints past the apex of the elytra : first joint densely rugulose- punctate ; fourth much shorter than the third and but little shorter than the fifth
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