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CERAMBTCID.i;. 



Genus BARALIPTON. 



BaraliptoQ, Thorns. Archiv. Enf. i, 

 Coleopt. viii, p. 153 (^1869). 



p. 341 (1857) ; Lacord. Gen. 



Type, B. maculosum, Thorns. 

 Ramie. Northern India. 



S . Head elongated behind the eyes, much narrower than tlie 

 prothorax : mandibles short and oblique, with sharp toothless 

 inner edge ; eyes emarginate in front, lower lobes distant from 

 base of mandibles. Antenna3 longer than the body ; first joint 

 stout, reaching almost to the fi-ont margin of the prothorax, 

 armed with a strong spine behind, close to the apex ; third joint 

 nearly five times as long as the first, slightly curved : fourth joint 

 a little longer than the first, also curved ; the joints from the 

 third to the sixth with a short thick fringe of tawny^ hairs 

 beneath. Prothorax with its lateral edge distinct from the base to 

 the apex, a strong dentiform process at the base, and with a 

 short tooth at the middle and a blunt angular process at the 

 apex. Elytra each with t«o strongly raised dorsal costae and a 

 short lateral ct)sta which is distinct only near the apex. Tarsi 

 moderately broad, with the first joint scarcely longer than the 



third and the claw-joint 

 almost as long as the first 

 three joints united. Last 

 ventral segment rounded at 

 the apex. 



$ . Antennas moreslender 

 than in the male, scarcely 

 reaching beyond the middle 

 of the elytra, without a 

 fringe of hairs beneath. 



36. Baralipton maculosum. 



Thorns. Archiv. Ent. i, 

 p. 342, pi. 14, fig. 1 

 (1857). 



Brownish black ; the upper 

 side and to a less extent the 

 underside also clothed with 

 a dense ashy-grey pubes- 

 cence, which on the elytra 

 gives silky reflexions; elytra 

 with an obcordate dark 

 brown spot of velvety ap- 

 pearance placed a little 

 ijehind the scutellum ; 

 each elytra has two very 

 large irregular si)ots o'l similar colour that extend from the outer 

 margin to the inner costa, placed, one before, the other behind 



Fig. 15. 

 Baralipton maculosum. Thorns., <S . 



