MACROTOMA. 



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band at the base, this basal band produced obliquely at its ex- 

 tremities ; at the middle it 

 is produced forwards in a 

 narrow triangle which some- 

 times extends to and unites 

 Avith the inner angles of the 

 triangular spaces in front. 

 Elytra densely grauulose, 

 the granules stronger and 

 the surface rougher towards 

 the base, especially near the 

 suture. Metasternum bare 

 of pubescence, with a sparsely 

 punctured triangular area 

 clearly marked off by a slightly 

 raised line from the closely 

 punctured part on each 

 side. Front legs asperate, 

 spinose beneath, the femora 

 thickened, the tibiae elon- 

 gated and slightly curved ; 

 the middle and hind legs 

 much less spinose ; first joint 

 of the tarsi scai'cely so long 

 as the next two joints 

 united. 



5 . Antennte shorter, not 

 reaching beyond the middle 

 of the elytra, with the first and third joints much less thickened 

 than in the male, third not asperate. Prothorax with its edges more 

 strongly spined, and more convergent in front ; the notum strongly 

 aud rather closely punctured towards the sides, less closely in the 

 middle and there also more or less glossy. Metaternum pubescent 

 at the sides as well as in the middle, rather closely granulate- 

 punctate. Fi-ont legs similar to the other two pairs. 

 Len<jth 37-52 mm. 



Hah. India — Kashmir to South Bombay and Nepal to Calcutta ; 

 Ceylon ; Burma. 



Fig. 13. — Macrotoma crcnata, Fab., (S ■ 



32. Macrotoma plagiata, C. O. Wntcrh. A. M. X II. (•>) xiv, p. 381 



(18S4). 

 Macrotoma pladata, Lameere, Mem. Soc. Ent. Belrj. xi, p. 167 

 (1903). 



Greatly resembles M. crenatus (Fab.) and agrees with it in most 

 points of structure, especially in the proportions of the first joint 

 of the antennae and front tarsus, but it is distinguishable from 

 that species : (1) by the greater relative length of the third joint 

 of the antenna^ as this joint in the male is quite as long as the 

 fourth, fifth, and sixth united ; (2) by the smaller f^size of the 



