. Coleoptera. Vol. I. [Longicornia. Part I.]. Beetles; Cerambycidae. POLTZONUS. 217 a distinct but rather bluut tubercle at the middle of each side; closely and irregularly riigulose on the disc, which is more or less dull, striate towards the sides, the striae transverse and obhque ; nitid at the sides and near the front and hind margins. Elytra covered faintly, except on the yellow bands, with a .short black pubescence, which more or less obscures the green colour of the derm. Body beneath covered with a fine silvery- grev pubescence. Hind femora reaching nearly to the apex of the elytra in
. Coleoptera. Vol. I. [Longicornia. Part I.]. Beetles; Cerambycidae. POLTZONUS. 217 a distinct but rather bluut tubercle at the middle of each side; closely and irregularly riigulose on the disc, which is more or less dull, striate towards the sides, the striae transverse and obhque ; nitid at the sides and near the front and hind margins. Elytra covered faintly, except on the yellow bands, with a .short black pubescence, which more or less obscures the green colour of the derm. Body beneath covered with a fine silvery- grev pubescence. Hind femora reaching nearly to the apex of the elytra in both sexes. First joint of the hind tarsi much longer than the second and third united. Last ventral segment of $ sinuate at the apex ; fifth and sixth in cJ sinuately emar- ginate at the apex. Length 16-20 ; breadth 3|-4| mm. Hah. Sikhim : Mungphu ; Burma : Rangoon ; Tenasserim : Moulmein; Fig. 81. Poh/zninis hi:o»atns, White. X 241. Polyzonus brevipes, sp. n. MetalHc green ; the elytra with two transverse yellow bands placed one a little before, the other behind the middle, the posterior band the broader of the two. Head nitid, densely rugulose-pimctate. Antennae shorter than the body in both sexes, slightly thickened between the middle and apex; first three or four joints green, the rest black; the first densely punc- tured ; sixth or seventh to tenth slightly produced so as to form an acute angle at the apex on the anterior side. Prothorax with a smooth, glossy obtuse tubercle at the middle of each side ; the disc densely rugulose-punctate, with a granulate appearance, sparsely covered with short black pubescence; the sides^ less densely punctate and somewhat smootli in places. Elytra finely and very densely punctulate ; covered, except on the yellow bands, with a "short dark pubescence which more or less obscures the colour of the derm.' Body beneath covered with grey pubescence. Legs rather short for this genus ; the hind femora reach very littTe past the hin
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