. Coleoptera. Vol. I. [Longicornia. Part I.]. Beetles; Cerambycidae. 40 in the male ; the disc with three shallow depressions. Legs less scabrous than those of the male. Prosternum nitid, very spai'sely punctate; hind breast sparsely pubescent and feebly punctured at the sides. Length 33-60 mm. Hah. Nilgiri Hills. 35. Zooblax elateroides, Thoms. Rev. et Mm/, de Zool. 1877, p. 274 ; Lameeve (Macrotoma), Mem. Sue. Ent. Bel;/, xi, p. 171 (1903). J. Almost entirely of a dull reddish-brown colour, the head, prothorax and base of the antennae somewhat darker than the rest. Mandibles ru
. Coleoptera. Vol. I. [Longicornia. Part I.]. Beetles; Cerambycidae. 40 in the male ; the disc with three shallow depressions. Legs less scabrous than those of the male. Prosternum nitid, very spai'sely punctate; hind breast sparsely pubescent and feebly punctured at the sides. Length 33-60 mm. Hah. Nilgiri Hills. 35. Zooblax elateroides, Thoms. Rev. et Mm/, de Zool. 1877, p. 274 ; Lameeve (Macrotoma), Mem. Sue. Ent. Bel;/, xi, p. 171 (1903). J. Almost entirely of a dull reddish-brown colour, the head, prothorax and base of the antennae somewhat darker than the rest. Mandibles rugosely punctured, except near the tip; head rather strongly punctured in front and on the vertex, closely and finely granulate behind, impressed above with a fine median groove. An- tennae with the first joint coarsely punctured, somewhat flattened above, canaliculate below; third much broader and thicker than any of the following joints, nearly as long as the fourth, fifth, and sixth united. Pronotum very uneven in the middle, the anterior t^^"0 shiny depressions having two swellings in front of them and two larger ones behind; a median impressed line extends from the base to a point in line with the anterior depressions. Elytra finely granulated; each with three or four feebly raised lines, the interspace between the suture and the inner- most line somewhat raised from the base to the middle and more coarsely granulated than the rest of the surface. Legs long; the femora of the front pair asperate in front, some- what transversely wrinkled behind, denticulate beneath ; tibiae of the same pair very long, slightly curved, asperate in front and behind, denticulate beneath ; middle and hind legs sparsely punctulate, \\ith the lower margins asperate or denticulate ; first joint of all the tarsi narrow and as long as the second and third united. Hind breast slightl}^ pubescent at the sides and in the glossy space in the Fig. 14. Zooblax claieroidcf, Thorns., St and me
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