248 CERAMBYCID.i:. 



extend by neai'ly one-fifth of their length past the apex of the 

 elytra in the $ and by one-third of their length in the cS . 

 Pygidium of 5 with a feeble sinuate emargination at the apex. 



Length 15-17 ; breadth -Ig-o mm. 



JIab. Southern India : Nilgiri Hills (Sir G. Harnpson) ; British 

 Bhutan {in coll. Oberthiir) ; Assam {Doherty) ; Burma. 



280. Xylotrechus carinicollis, Jordan, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1895, p. 269. 



Eeddish brown ; head covered with orauge-tawny pubescence, 

 marked with a median black carina, which is longitudinally canali- 

 culate except in its lower part ; prothorax witli a band of j'ellow 

 pubescence at the base, and two transverse dark brown bauds, 

 one before the middle, the other in front of the basal yellow baud, 

 the intervening spaces covered Avith orange-tawny pubescence ; 

 scutellum brown at the base, yellow at the apex ; elytra with a 

 narrow band at the base and tlie apical fourth part reddish brown, 

 the rest almost black, somewhat velvety, crossed completely by 

 two yellow bands, one a little before, the other behind, the middle ; 

 the first band straight, the second, which is somewhat narrower, 

 slightly curved backwards at the sides. Body beneath reddish 

 brown, with the sides of the mesothorax, metathorax and abdo- 

 men more or less dark brow^n; the episterna of the mesothorax, 

 a median spot on theprosternum, the hind border and an anterior 

 transverse spot on each side of the metasternum, a spot on each 

 of the metathoracic episterna, and a transverse spot at each side 

 of the first four abdominal segments, densely covered with, yellow 

 pubescence : legs red. Antenna; thick, the first five joints red, 

 the rest dark brown. Prothorax subglobose, widest just in front 

 of the middle ; disc granulate, an obtuse carina along the middle. 

 Elytra a little broader than the prothorax, slightly narrowed back- 

 wards, dentate at the outer angles of the truncate apex. Meso- 

 sternum obtusely tuberculate in the middle. Hind femora ex- 

 tending by about one-fifth of their length past the apex of the 

 elytra in the $ . 



Length 15|-18 ; breadth -^h-o mm. 



Hah. Assam : Ivhasi Hills. 



281. Xylotrechus incurvatus, Chevr. (Amaurajsthes) Mem. Soc. H. 

 Set. de Liege, xviii, p. 331 (1863). 



Densely covered ^ith pubescence, which is of a luteous-yellow 

 colour on the head, prothorax and elytra, yellouish white on the 

 body beneath ; antennae and legs testaceous, very faintly ])ubes- 

 cent ; carinse of the head, five spots on the prothorax and some 

 narrow strongly curved bands on the elytra black. Head with 

 the lateral carina) short and oblique, not extended downwards 

 beyond the level of the upper margin of the anterior ocular lobe ; 

 the median carina distinct below, divided above by a narrow 



