. Coleoptera. Vol. I. [Longicornia. Part I.]. Beetles; Cerambycidae. 100 :. with the first joint brown. Prothorax with four very small bercles on the disc, two before and two behind, the latter more widely separated; marked with a median impressed line ; covered faintly with a very short greyish pubescence. Elytra faintly pubescent, sub- nitid, distinctly and rather closely punctured ; narrowed gradually from the base to within a short distance of the apex, then sligjitly dilated; each sharply rounded at the apex. Body beneath brown, with a faint covering of silvery-grey pnbescence
. Coleoptera. Vol. I. [Longicornia. Part I.]. Beetles; Cerambycidae. 100 :. with the first joint brown. Prothorax with four very small bercles on the disc, two before and two behind, the latter more widely separated; marked with a median impressed line ; covered faintly with a very short greyish pubescence. Elytra faintly pubescent, sub- nitid, distinctly and rather closely punctured ; narrowed gradually from the base to within a short distance of the apex, then sligjitly dilated; each sharply rounded at the apex. Body beneath brown, with a faint covering of silvery-grey pnbescence. Legs brownish, the peduncles of the femora and the base of the tibiae pale testaceous. 2 • Antenna? less than twice the length of the body, entirely testaceous red; almost the whole of the head and a broad median baud along the pronotum testaceovis ; the pale sutural baud of the elytra extending almost to the apex ; the legs entirely testaceous. Length 10-12 ; breadth 2| mm. Hah. Ceylon. The difference in colour that marks the female specimen here described is probably not altogether sexual, but due in part to individual variation. In the male specimens seen, there is an evident tendency to variation in the extent of the darker brown Fig. 39.—Amimes macilentns, Pasc, cT ?. X 5- Genus TETRAOMMATUS. Tetraommatus, Per7'oud,Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon (2) ii, p. 390 (1855) ; Lacord. Gen. CoUopt. viii, p. 221 (1869). Deuteromma, Pascoe, Ti-ans. Ent. Soc. (2) iv, p. 98 (1857). Type, , Perroud. Mange. Southern India, Ceylon, Burma, and Malay Archipelago. Head nearly flat between the antenniferous tubercles, the latter depressed transverse, with the margin entire; eyes divided each into two widely separated parts, the upper much smaller than the lower. Antennae slender, sparsely setose, nearly t^^•ice as long as the body in the d" • Third and following joints subequa), or very gradually decreasing in length. Prothorax oblong-ovate or some- times almost cylin
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