156 CERAMBYCID.I. 



as long as their width across the base, roLinded at the apex. 

 Acetabula of front coxae rounded externally, open posteriorly ; 

 the intercoxal process flattened, rather narrow, and scarcely 

 dilated at the end ; the acetabula of the middle coxae do not 

 extend to the epimera. Episterna of raetathorax narrow, attenu- 

 ated posteriorly. Legs moderately long : femora strongly clavate, 

 pedunculate at the base ; first joint of hind tarsus as long as the 

 second and third united, 



162. Trinophyliiin cribratum. Bates, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 720; id. 

 Scientific Results Second Yarkand Mission, Col. p. 22, pi. 1, tig. 19 

 (1890). 



Chestnut-brown in colour, more or less nitid, sparsely furnished 



above with short semi-erect fulvous brown 



hairs. Head and basal joints of antennae 



finely rugulose-punctate. Prothorax closely 



and rather strongly punctured ; marked with 



a feeble sinuate groove or depression near 



the apex and another near the base ; the 



disc slightly depressed along the middle, 



w ith a very narrow impunctate space behind. 



Elytra closely and strongly punctured, less 



strongly near the apex. Body beneath 



reddish brown, sparsely pubescent, less 



closely and rather finely punctured ; pro- 



■p.^ ^„ sternum transversely depressed a little be- 



Ti-inovhylum crihra- hind the front margin ; abdomen narrowed 



jf«?n, Bates, (^ . x 7. posteriorly, first segment longest, second to 



fourth successively shorter. Legs reddish 



brown, minutely and sparsely punctate. 



Length 11-13; breadth 3^-4 mm. 



Hah. Murree ; Kashmir ; Assam : Sylhet. 



Genus CERESIUM. 



Ceresium, Neicman, Entomologist, i, j). ;!22 (1S42); Lacord. Gen. 



Coleopt. viii, p. 35.3 (l6t)9). 

 Dialoiuocephaia, Itlcmchard, l\)y. an Pole Sud, Zool. iv, p. 206 



(18o;>) ; Lacord. I. c. p. 354. 

 Pneiimida, Thorns. Syst. Cerainh. p. 191 (1861). 



Type, C. raripilum, Newm., a species from the Philippine 

 Islands. 



Ranfje. Oriental Eegion, China, Oceania, Madagascar, and 

 Mexico. 



Head little exserted, slightly concave between the antenna;; 

 front subvertical or oblique ; eyes emarginate, rather widely 

 separated above. Antennae slender, distinctly longer than the 

 body in the 6 , A-ery slightly or not longer than it in the 5 ; third 

 joint subequal in length to the first, sometimes slightly longer, 



