14 CERAMBTCID.I. 



feebly dentate at the suture. Third joiut of the tarsi more or less 

 deeply bilobed, the lobes rounded at the end. Other characters 

 almost as in LophosU'rnus. 



$ . Antennae shorter than the body, more slender than in the 

 S , and not denticulate underneath. Legs smooth. Abdomen 

 rounded at the apex. 



13. Paraphrus granulosus, Thoms. (Cvrto2nathus) Essai Class. 

 Ceramb. p. 329 (1861). 



6 . Bi'ick-red in colour, the head and antennae sometimes 

 inclining to dark brow n ; prothorax and elytra almost entirely 

 opaque. Head nitid and very sparsely punctured in front ; upper- 

 side rugosely punctate and opaque. Antennae : tl;e first five 

 or six joints more or less nitid above, somewhat asperate under- 

 neath ; the fix'st three or four sparsely punctate and the last 

 six or seven densely rugulose-punctate and opaque. Prouotum 

 finely and very closely punctured over its whole area. Elytra 

 somewhat rugulose, closely and very finely punctulate. Hind 

 breast pubescent. Last ventral segment with an arcuate emargi- 

 nation at the apex. Front and middle legs asperate uuderueath. 

 Third joint of tarsi with its cleft extending three-fourths of the 

 way to the base, and its lobes obtusely rounded at the end. 



Variation. In some small males the pronotum has two nitid or 

 sub-nitid spaces near the middle and another, transverse, at the 

 base, these spaces being much more finely and less closely punc- 

 tured than 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 scabrous 

 underneath. Legs smooth. Last ventral segment rounded at 

 apex. 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 Xorth 

 America. 



(5 . Head short, transverse, more or less concave in front ; 

 mandibles stout, rather short, vertical, abruptly incurved and 

 acute at the tip, with or without a tooth on the inner edge ; palpi 

 moderately long, the labial somewhat shorter than the maxillary. 

 Eyes rather large, reniform. Antenna) at least three-fourtlis the 

 length of the body, with twelve or more joints ; first joint rather 

 short, third the longest : the joints from the tiiird or fourth to the 



