. Coleoptera. Vol. I. [Longicornia. Part I.]. Beetles; Cerambycidae. 170 ;. abruptly clavate, with a rather long slender peduucle at the base; the hind pair as long as the abdomen in the d; tarsi slender, with the first joint in the hind pair as long as the second and third united. Front coxae strongly exserted, their acetabula angulated on the outer side, open posteriorly; the intercoxal process very narrow. 183. Molorchus taprobanicus, sp. n. c?. Pitch-black and nitid, with the legs somewhat reddish at the base, and the abdomen furnished with patches of greyish- white pubescence
. Coleoptera. Vol. I. [Longicornia. Part I.]. Beetles; Cerambycidae. 170 ;. abruptly clavate, with a rather long slender peduucle at the base; the hind pair as long as the abdomen in the d; tarsi slender, with the first joint in the hind pair as long as the second and third united. Front coxae strongly exserted, their acetabula angulated on the outer side, open posteriorly; the intercoxal process very narrow. 183. Molorchus taprobanicus, sp. n. c?. Pitch-black and nitid, with the legs somewhat reddish at the base, and the abdomen furnished with patches of greyish- white pubescence at the sides. Antennae 11-joiuted, more than twice as long as the body; third joint slightly shorter than the fourth, the latter distiiictly shorter than the fifth, sixth to tenth gradually and successively longer; eleventh not longer than the tenth, its appendix very short and somewhat curved. Prothorax with a small conical tubercle on each side ; the disc with a short, narrow, median and two longer, lateral callosities, which are smooth and glossy, the narrow interspaces between them closely punctured. Elytra not longer than the prothorax, extended posteriorly as far as to the posterior border of the metasternum; sparsely punctate, very glossy, depressed in the middle, each sharply rounded at the apex. Femora rather strongly clavate ; middle tibice slightly dilated on the inner side just before the middle ; the hind tibite somewhat sinuately bent. First joint of the hind tarsus a little longer than the second and third united. Leiu/th (to apex of abdomen) 8 mm., of elytra 2 mm. Hab. Fig. G7. Molorchus taprohanicus, Gahan, c^. 184. Molorchus filiformis, Motsch. Etudes Entom. 1858, p. 67. " Elongate, parallel-sided, subfiliform, nitid, sparsely and coarsely punctured, black ; antennae at base, tibiae and tarsi rufo-piceous. Elytra rounded at the apex, marked with a whitish- testaceous, transverse, subsinuate spot in the middle of each elytron ; thorax elongate, s
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