192 CERAMBYCID.I. 



2(>7. Zouopterus vedemanni. Xonfned, Deut. ent. Zeit. xxxv, p. 275 

 (1892). 



2 . Dark blue or violaeeous-blue above, somewhat glossy, neai'ly 

 bare of pubescence ; \\-ith two yellow bauds that cross the elytra, 

 the first nearly midway between the base and the middle, the 

 second a very short distance behind the middle ; first five or six 

 joints of the antennte black, the rest tawny ; body beneath steel- 

 blue, glossy, very faintly pubescent ; legs black or bluish black, 

 with the tarsi testaceous yellow. Puncturation of the head, pro- 

 thorax, and elytra very much as in Z. Jfavitarsis, Hope, but a little 

 sti'onger and more conspicuous owing to the absence of a tomeu- 

 tose covering. Prothorax transverse, slightly protuberant at the 

 middle of each side ; the disc with a slight transverse prominence 

 on each side just in front of the basal constriction and with two 

 feeble tubercles, more finely punctured than the rest of the surface, 

 near the apex. Pemora finely and rather sparsely punctate, the 

 hind pair reach to a little beyond the hind border of the second 

 elytral band. 



Lenf/th 35-40 ; breadth 10-1 0| mm. 



Hab. Ceylon. 



In general form and structure this species comes very near 

 Z. consancfiuneus, and is chiefly distinguishable from it by its 

 larger size, by the upper surface \\hich is almost bare of pubescence, 

 and the puncturation, which is consequently much more distinctly 

 visible. The author of the species has described the prothorax as 

 elongate and strongly convex, but in the female at least the width 

 acro>ss the middle is a littJe greater than the median depth, and 

 the disc is not more convex than in other species, rather the 

 reverse. 



208. Zonopterus corbetti, sp. n. 



Dark metallic green or blue, with two broad yellow bands of 

 variable width on the elytra ; legs black, with tlie tarsi testaceous; 

 last five joints of the antenua3 testaceous ; the yellow elytral 

 bands in some specimens coalesce at the sides and suture and are 

 so much extended that the elytra may be described as yellow, with 

 the apical fourth, a narrow band at the base, and a transverse 

 spot just before the middle of each, dark blue ; in other specimens 

 the yellow bands are not broader than the sub-median blue band 

 which separates them, and become slightly narrower towards the 

 suture ; the basal blue band and the sub-median band are slightl}- 

 pointed posteriorly at the suture. Head closely and rather finely 

 puncttired. Antennte not so thick as usual for this genus, reaching 

 to a little beyond the middle of the elytra in both sexes ; joints 

 fifth to tenth feebly angulate in front at the apex. Prothorax 

 closely and fineh' punctured above, sparsely beneath in the $ , 

 very densely beneath in the 6 • Elytra also finely and very 

 closely punctured. Breast and abdomen with a fine grey 



