. Coleoptera. Vol. I. [Longicornia. Part I.]. Beetles; Cerambycidae. 109 made up of a series of elongate spots placed side by side ; the oblique apical margin of the elytra blue-black, the lateral maiyins iiot dark as in the preceding species. Head rugulose-punctate. litenna^ reach past the apex of the elytra by about three ^ joints in the $, and by more than four in the ^; first joint very densely and very finely rugulose-punctate; third to sixth not spined in either sex; all the joints pubescent, the pubescence longer and somewhat denser on the underside. Prothorax transverse,
. Coleoptera. Vol. I. [Longicornia. Part I.]. Beetles; Cerambycidae. 109 made up of a series of elongate spots placed side by side ; the oblique apical margin of the elytra blue-black, the lateral maiyins iiot dark as in the preceding species. Head rugulose-punctate. litenna^ reach past the apex of the elytra by about three ^ joints in the $, and by more than four in the ^; first joint very densely and very finely rugulose-punctate; third to sixth not spined in either sex; all the joints pubescent, the pubescence longer and somewhat denser on the underside. Prothorax transverse, but much narrower than the elytra, slightly constricted and marked with a trans- verse groove near base and apex, a little dilated and strongly tuberculate at the middle of each side ; the dark spots on the disc placed on two slight elevations, between which is a median canahculate depression; the surface densely rugulose- punctate, sparsely clothed with Iongish pubescence. Each elytron with two feebly raised dorsal costse which unite at about the middle of the posterior dark band, a single costa continued thence almost up to the apical border; the surface very finely rugulose-punctate, covered faintlv with short grev pubescence. Tips of the femora and tibiae and lateral borders of the metasternum, black. Last ventral secernent sinuate at the apex in the 6 , broadly truncate and fringed wiUi reddish-brown hairs in the $ . Intercoxal process of pro- sternum abruptly dechvous in front. Leuf/tJi 30-37 ; hreadtJt 9-11 mm. Bab. Sikhim : Darjeeling; British Fio'. 43.— Ojilatocera oberthuri, Gahan, S • Group HESPEROPHANINI. Gula without mentigerous process, excei)t in Hesperojilianes, in which it is very short; ligula membranous ; eyes large, deeply emartrinate; antennte ciliated, longer than the body m the S . Prothorax unarmed at the sides. Elytra rather long, more or less parallel-sided. Eront coxte subglobular, more or less angulate at the side ; their acetabula open
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