. Coleoptera. Vol. I. [Longicornia. Part I.]. Beetles; Cerambycidae. 302 CERAMBYCID.'E. what prominent, not carinate. Legs moderately long, the femora gradually subclavate, the hind pair not extended past the apex of the elytra in the c? ; first joint of hind tarsi scarcely longer than the second and third united. Episterua of metathorax narrow, parallel-sided. 371. Oligoenoplus ventrails, Chcvr. Mim. Soc. li. Sci. de Li-ge, xviii, p. 3:37 (1803). Variable in colour and markings, sometimes nearly black all over, sometimes with the head, pronotum, elytra, legs and antennae of a more or less red
. Coleoptera. Vol. I. [Longicornia. Part I.]. Beetles; Cerambycidae. 302 CERAMBYCID.'E. what prominent, not carinate. Legs moderately long, the femora gradually subclavate, the hind pair not extended past the apex of the elytra in the c? ; first joint of hind tarsi scarcely longer than the second and third united. Episterua of metathorax narrow, parallel-sided. 371. Oligoenoplus ventrails, Chcvr. Mim. Soc. li. Sci. de Li-ge, xviii, p. 3:37 (1803). Variable in colour and markings, sometimes nearly black all over, sometimes with the head, pronotum, elytra, legs and antennae of a more or less reddish-testaceous colour, rather densely covered above with pubescence, which is sometimes grey, some- times tawny yellow in colour; prothorax with a glabrous black or red spoc or band in the middle; elytra marked each with a brownish or black spot near the base, au oblique band a little in front of and another just behind the middle; these bands are united along the suture and together with the corresponding bands of the other elytron form a somewhat X-shaped figure; another black or brown spot placed about midway between the post median band and the apex ; body beneath black, more or less densely covered with luteous - yellow pubescence. Antenna) reach to the apical third of the elytra in the 2 , nearly to the apex in the (f ; third joint more or less distinctly, the fourth obsoletely, spined at the apex. Pro- thorax strongly convex above, rather strongly and densely punctured, the punctures more distinctly visible on the glabrous dorsal band. Elytra narrowly rounded or sometimes obliquely subtruncate at the apex. Hind femora not extended quite to the apex of the elytra in the <S'i first joint of hind tarsus not longer than the second and third united. Lenf/th 7-1 i ; breadth 2-2^ mm. HaL Southern India : Nilgiri Fig. 97.—0%o- enophis venfralis, Chevr. X f- 372. Oligoenoplus murinus, AUanl (Clvtus), Le JS'aturab'sfe (2) viii, p. 162 (1894). Black, densely covered a
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