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CERAilBTCID.E. 



Genus STEOMATIUM. 



Stromatiuui, Seirille, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (1834) p. 80 ; Lacorch 

 Gen. CoUopt. viii, p. 282 (1869). 



Type, S. harhatum, Fab. 



Eange. Mediterraueau and Malagassy Subregions ; the Oriental 

 Eegion, extending tlience through the Eastern Archipelago to 

 Batch ian. 



Head with a transverse ridge between the antennoe, slightly 

 prominent and acute at each end ; clypeus short, transversely 

 depressed ; anteclypeus coriaceous ; labrum transverse ; mandibles 

 short, oblique ; gula without mentigerous process ; eyes rather 

 deeply emarginate, with large lower lobe, extending anteriorly 

 almost up to the genal edge. Antennje about one-third longer 

 than the body in the S , scarcely longer than the body in the $ ; 

 ciUate beneath ; third joint the longest, fourth slightly shorter 

 than the fifth. Prothorax transverse or subquadrate, with the 

 sides more or less strongly rounded or protuberant in the $ , 

 each marked with a large tomentose depression in the (S . Elytra 

 nearly parallel-sided, narrowed and rounded at the apex. Legs 

 moderately long ; femora compressed, the front pair very broad a 

 little below the base in the (S , and gradually narrowed outwards ; 

 the middle and hind pairs gradually and slightly widened up to 

 the middle ; the hind pair do not reach to the apex of the elytra 

 in the S ; first joint of the hind tarsus not so long as the second 

 and third united. Front cosse rounded, their acetabula a little 

 augulate towards the side and open posteriorly ; intercoxal process 

 gradually deflexed and not dilated towards the end. 



108. Stromatium barbatum, Fah. (Callidium) Syst. Ent. p. 189 

 (1775) ; OUv. Entom. iv, no. 70, p. 10, pi. 4, fig. 41 (1795). 

 Callidium funestum, Boiscl. Voy. d' Astrolabe, ii, p. 481 (1835). 



Varies in colour from brownish black to reddish brown, 

 faintly covered with tawny pubescence. 

 Head densely and rather coarsely punc- 

 tured above and at the sides, as 

 densely but less strongly punctured in 

 front. Prothorax verj^ densely covered 

 with strong coarse punctures ; the disc 

 with five slightly raised tubercles, less 

 distinct in the J , placed two anteriorly, 

 one behind the middle, and two near 

 the base ; the sides broadly and obtusely 

 protuberant except near the base, in 

 the § ; straighter and marked each with 

 a lai'ge tomentose depression, extending 

 along the greater part of its length, in 

 the S • Elytra coarsely and very densely 

 punctured ; each with t\A"o tolenibly dis- 

 tinct dorsal and one or two short lateral 

 costae, the latter sometimes obsolete; a short sutural tooth at apex. 



i'ig. 45. — Stromatium 

 barbatum, Fab., (^ . 



