ElIONDIA. 



79 



joint deeply bilobed. Front coxse subcoutiguous, the intercoxal 

 process very narrow behind ; their acetabula open posteriorly. 

 Wings with first cubital vein bifurcate, second cubital joined to the 

 first and to the first anal, the latter with a vei'y distinct and rather 

 large elliptical cell. 



73. Oxymirus cursor, Linn. (Cerambyx) Stjst. Nat. ed. 10, p. 393 



(1758) ; Oliv. (Stenocorus) Eat. iv, uo. 69, p. 14, pi. 1, fig. 9 



(1795). 

 (S = Cerambyx noctis, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, p. 630 (1766) ; Oliv. 



(Stenocorus) /. c. p. 17, pi. 1, tig. 10. 

 d" = *Toxotus lacordairei, — 5, Pascoe, Proc. Ent. Soc. 1867, 



p. Ix.xxiv. 



c? . Most often nearly black, faintly covered above, more densely 

 beneath, with grey pubescence. Head and prothorax finely 



and very densely punctate ; furnished 

 sparsely with some lougish hairs, 

 especially on the sides. Scutellum 

 rather densely pubescent. Elytra 

 rugose, each with an obtuse costa 

 that extends along almost its whole 

 length from the shoulder and two 

 feebler and shorter costse along the 

 disc, the intervals between the costjB 

 depressed, forming shallow channels. 

 Last ventral segment elongate, nar- 

 rowed posteriorly, subsinuately trun- 

 cate at the apex, strongly carinate 

 along the' middle. 



5 . Exceptionally coloured like the 

 male, but usually differs as follows : 

 a rather broad chestnut-red band along 

 the middle of each elytron and another 

 along the side margin, the two bands uniting at the apex ; the 

 legs to a great extent and the antennae reddish brown ; last 

 ventral segment scarcely longer than the penultimate, not carinate 

 along the middle ; antenna; shorter than in the male. 

 LenrjtJi 15-18 ; breadth 5-6 mm. 



Eab. Baluchistan : Quetta ; Central and Southern Europe and 

 "Western Asia. 



Genus RHONDIA, g. n. 



Type, R. imrjnax., Dohru (Lej)tura). 

 Bamje. That of the type species. 



Head strougly exserted ; narrowed gradually and very slightly 

 from the eyes posteriorly until near the occiput and then more 



Fig. 31. 



Oxymirus cursor, Linn., cJ. 



X ?. 



* Tliis name was applied to two specimens, each belonging to a distinct and 

 well-known European species, the one described as the male beiuo- a I'emale of 

 Tuxotus meridianus, Linn., and that described as the iemale, a male of 

 Oxymirus cursor. 



