Coleoptera. Vol. I. [Longicornia. Part I.]

;14 CERAMBTCID.I.feebly dentate at the suture. Third joiut of the tarsi more or lessdeeply bilobed, the lobes rounded at the end. Other charactersalmost as in LophosU'rnus.$. Antennae shorter than the body, more slender than in theS , and not denticulate underneath. Legs smooth. Abdomenrounded at the apex.13. Paraphrus granulosus, Thoms. (Cvrto2nathus) Essai Class.Ceramb. p. 329 (1861).6 . Bi'ick-red in colour, the head and antennae sometimesinclining to dark brow n ;prothorax and elytra almost entirelyopaque. Head nitid and very sparsely punctured in front ; uppersiderugosely punctate and opaque. Antennae : tl;e first fiveor six joints more or less nitid above, somewhat asperate underneath; the fix'st three or four sparsely punctate and the lastsix or seven densely rugulose-punctate and opaque. Prouotumfinely and very closely punctured over its whole area. Elytrasomewhat rugulose, closely and very finely punctulate. Hindbreast pubescent. Last ventral segment with an arcuate emarginationat the apex. Front and middle legs asperate uuderueath.Third joint of tarsi with its cleft extending three-fourths of theway to the base, and its lobes obtusely rounded at the end.Variation. In some small males the pronotum has two nitid orsub-nitid spaces near the middle and another, transverse, at thebase, these spaces being much more finely and less closely puncturedthan the rest of tlie surface.2 Form and colour of S . • Antenna? shorter thau the body,more slender than in the male, and not denticulate or scabrousunderneath. Legs smooth. Last ventral segment rounded atapex. Hind breast less densely pubescent.Length S $ 33-65; hreadth 11-25 mm.JJah. Mungphu in iSikhim (Atkinson Coll.) ; Burma : Thayetmyo,Moulmein, jNT. Chin Hills (Watson), Thaungyin Valley (Bingham),Kakhieu Hills (B. L. Stanton):, Siam.Genus PRIONUS.Prionus, Geoffrey, Hist. Ins. de Paris, i, p. 198 (1762).Type, P. coriarius, Linn. European.Range. Europe, Western and Northern Asia, Japan, and XorthAmerica.(5 . Head short, transverse, more or less concave in frontmandibles stout, rather short, vertical, abruptly incurved andacute at the tip, with or without a tooth on the inner edge ;palpimoderately long, the labial somewhat shorter than the maxillary.Eyes rather large, reniform. Antenna) at least three-fourtlis thelength of the body, with twelve or more joints ; first joint rathershort, third the longest : the joints from the tiiird or fourth to the