. Coleoptera. Vol. I. [Longicornia. Part I.]. Beetles; Cerambycidae. NOTHOPEUS. 203 222. Nothopeus hemipterus, OUv. (Cerambvx) Entom. i\, no. 67, p. ]i'7, pi. L';}, fig. ISl (179--)) : Fab. (Steiiocorus) Syst. Eleiith. ii, p. 310 (1801); Scrv. (Colobus) Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. ii, p. 555 (1833). Black, more or less tinged ^^â itb violaceous or dark blue ; vertex of bead, ])rothorax and elytra covered with black tomeutum, wbich is denser and somewhat velvety in appearance on the ])ronotum ; Mings somewhat A'ai'iable in colour, in some specimens dark brown passing into dull tawny towards the edges, i
. Coleoptera. Vol. I. [Longicornia. Part I.]. Beetles; Cerambycidae. NOTHOPEUS. 203 222. Nothopeus hemipterus, OUv. (Cerambvx) Entom. i\, no. 67, p. ]i'7, pi. L';}, fig. ISl (179--)) : Fab. (Steiiocorus) Syst. Eleiith. ii, p. 310 (1801); Scrv. (Colobus) Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. ii, p. 555 (1833). Black, more or less tinged ^^â itb violaceous or dark blue ; vertex of bead, ])rothorax and elytra covered with black tomeutum, wbich is denser and somewhat velvety in appearance on the ])ronotum ; Mings somewhat A'ai'iable in colour, in some specimens dark brown passing into dull tawny towards the edges, in others entirely violaceous blue ; body beneath rather faintly covered with pubescence which for the most part is blackish, but on the sides of the posterior half of the first abdominal segment has a silvery grey lustre. AntenniE about equal in length to the body in the S, reaching but little past the apices of the elytra in the 5 . Fro- thgrax armed with a small conical tubercle just before the middle of each side, narrowed posteriorly the lateral tubercles, constricted and transversely depressed at the base; the disc a little protuberant on each side just in front of the basal depression. Elytra ex- tended a little beyond the hind coxoe in the 5 , and not beyond them in the (5 , approximate at the suture for less than half their length, then strongly deiiiscent, each in its posterior half so as to form a triangle with its inner side strongly oblique and its outer side nearly straight, the apex acute in the 5 , slightly obtuse in the (S. Hind tibias strougly compressed, widest about the middle, narrowed slif^htly towards the apex and more strongly towards the base ; first joint of the hind tarsus as long as the remaining joints united. Length 22-30 ; breadth 5-8 mm. Hah. jN^orthern India; Burma; Fig. 78.âNothopeus hemipterus, Oliv., $, 223. Nothopeus fulvus, Bates (Culobus), Cist. Entom. ii, u. :]' (1879). Head, prothorax, elytra, wings, antennae and legs fulvous
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