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CEEAMBYCID.I. 



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 middle. 



Fig. 14. 

 Zooblax claieroidcf, Thorns., St 

 and metasternum of tlie same. 



