CALLICHROMOrSIS. 



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vertical, separated from the clypeus by a fine transversely arcuate 

 impression ; eyes finely facetted, emarginate, with the lo^\■er lobe 

 rounded, the upper narrow ; maxillary lobes elongate, with brush 

 of hairs at the end ; last joint of palpi triangular. Antennai of 

 $ nearly one-third longer than the body ; third joint the longest, 

 almost twice as long as the first ; fifth a little longer than fourth 

 aud shorter than third ; sixth to tenth slightly thickened and 

 gradually shorter, each denticulate in front at the apex ; third to 

 fifth feebly spined posteriorly at the apex; eleventh a little longer 

 than the tenth. Prothorax as broad as long, slightly rounded at 

 the sides, marked with a transverse groove near base and apex. 

 Elytra much broader than the prothorax, slightly narrowed back- 

 wards, broadly truncate at the apex, scarcely more than tAvice as 

 long as their width across the base. Legs long ; the hind pair 

 very long, with the femora extended by half their length beyond 

 the apex of the elytra ; the tibiae spatulately dilated in their distal 

 half, and the first joint of the tarsus much longer than the 

 remaining joints united. Front coxae rounded, their acetabula 

 shghtly angulate outwards, open posteriorly. Episterna of meta- 

 thorax moderately bi'oad except near the apex, where they are 

 abruptly narrowed and marked with a pit-like depression. 



198. Callichromopsis telephoroides, Westic. (Cerambyx) Cab. Orient. 

 Bnt. p. 59, pi. 29, fig. 1 (1848) ; Clievr. Mem. Soc. H. >S'cj. de 

 Liege, xviii, p. 255 (1863). 



Body above and below orange-red, with rather more than the 

 apical third of the elytra black : antenna? black, with the seventh 

 and eighth joints pale yellow ; legs black, 

 with almost the whole of the front femora 

 and the basal half or third of the middle 

 and hind femora fulvous. Head finely 

 and closely punctured, somewhat dull 

 above, subnitid in front. Eirst antennal 

 joint finely and very closely punctate; the 

 third and a few of the following joints 

 sparsely fringed with hairs beneath. Pro- 

 thorax closely covered Avith broad shallow 

 punctures, the interstices formed into a 

 fine reticulation ; sparsely clothed Avith 

 erect tawny pubescence. Elytra very 

 closely and rather finely punctate, feebly 

 convex above ; the anterior red part clothed 

 with tawny pubescence, and the black 

 part Avith very short black pubescence. 

 Body beneath with a short silky pubes- 

 cence, that has a golden lustre in certain lights. 



Length 14-15 ; breadth 4 mm. 



Hab. Ceylon. 



Fig. 71 . — Callichromopiiis 



telephoroidcs, Westw. 



X I. 



