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which I have seen, the femora are yellow with the upper borders 

 black. The author of the species has, however, described it as 

 testaceous, with the antennsc, legs, and elytral spines black, so 

 that a certain amount of variation in colour must be allowed 

 for. Although referred, but with some doubt, to Capnolijmma, 

 Pasc, by its author, this species certainly cannot be placed in that 

 genus, the structure of the antennae and their point of insertion 

 on the head being quite different, and the head itself not nearly 

 so prolonged in front. It is in some respects more nearly related 

 to the Holarctic genus Gaurotes, Lee. 



Lenrjtli 11-13; hreadth 5 mm. 



Hah. Northern India ; Burma. 



Genus LEPTURA. 



Leptura, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, p. 397 (1758) ; Lacord. Gen. 

 Coleopt. viii, p. 445 (1869). 



Type, L. virens, Linn., a European species. 



Bauf/e. Holarctic, extending also, but under somewhat modified 

 forms, into the Oriental liegion. 



Head abruptly constricted a little behind the eyes, formed 

 into a distinct neck ; eyes of moderate size, finely facetted, eraar- 

 ginate ; front oblique, either separated or not from the clypeus by 

 oblique sutural lines ; the clypeus is relatively long, extends ante- 

 riorly considerably beyond the base of the mandibles and becomes 

 coriaceous or membranous only near its front margin ; labrum large ; 

 gense more or less long ; gula produced to form a distinct men- 

 tigerous process. Autennje inserted between, and close to, the 

 lower lobes of the eyes ; generally shorter, sometimes a little 

 longer than the body ; the joints more or less slender, usually 

 cylindrical, sometimes slightly angulate at the apex, the fourtii 

 shorter than the third or fifth. Prothorax narrowed from the 

 base to the apex, but otherwise somewhat variable in form, 

 the sides sometimes nearly straight, often more or less curved, 

 but never distinctly tuberculate. Elytra generally more or less 

 retracted posteriorly, less often w'ith the sides subparallel. Legs 

 moderately long, the hind pair longest, femora subcylindrical ; 

 tibial spurs long ; hind tarsi relatively very long, with the first 

 joint longer at least than the next two united and the third not 

 very deeply cleft. Acetabula of front coxte narrowly open pos- 

 teriorly, the intercoxal process narrow but more or less dilated 

 towards the end. 



75. Leptura rubriola, Bates, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 720, $ ; id. Scientifc 

 Itesu/fs Second Yarkand Mission, Coleopt, p. 22, pi. 1, fio-s. 21 & 

 22, d 2 (1890). 



d . Black, with the elytra from the base to a little bevond the 

 middle yellowish red. Head finely and very closely punctured 



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