306 



CER.VMBTCID.E. 



the apex ; each narrowly truncate near the suture, and armed, or 

 not, with two slioi't spines. Legs stout and moderately long; 

 femora gradually clavate, the hind pair extended up to, or beyond, 

 the apex of the elytra in the c? ; tibije slightly curved, carinate on 

 each side ; first joint of bind tarsus shorter than the next two 

 united ; tarsal claws not widely divergent. Acetabula of front 

 coxa? rounded, almost (sometimes quite) closed in posteriorly ; 

 those of the middle coxae shut off from the epimera by the apposi- 

 tion of the lateral angles of the meso- and metasternum ; inter- 

 coxal part of mesosternum broad : episterna of metathorax narrow. 



V~~ — J 



376. Epipedocera zona, Chevr. Mem. Soc. B. Sci. de Liccje, xviii, p. 340 



(1803). 



Black, the femora, also sometimes the tibiae and the first 

 anteunal joint, testaceous red ; elytra marked each at the middle 

 with a transverse, smooth, raised, ivory-white or yellow band, 

 which reaches neither to the suture nor to the outer margin ; 

 scutellum covered w'ith a dense silvery-white pubescence. Head 



closely punctate. Antennae almost as 

 long as the body in the c? , shorter in 

 the 2 , black or brownish black ; first 

 six joints glabrous and nitid, the rest 

 wholly or in part pubescent ; first 

 punctate, more than t^^"ice as long as 

 the second, third to eighth canaliculate 

 above. Prothorax protuberant and 

 rounded at the middle of each side, 

 deeply constricted at the base and 

 slightly so at the apex ; its width across 

 the middle almost equal to that of the 

 elytra at the base, and very slightly 

 greater than its length along the 

 middle ; the sides and upper surface 

 covered with shallow broad punctures, 

 the interstices of which form a reticu- 

 lation; a narrow band on the depressed part of the base, that borders 

 the basal emargination, smooth and glossy ; the basal emargination 

 rather deep and the lateral lobes correspondingly long. Elytra 

 deeply, strongly and very closely punctured, except near the apex, 

 the apical area sparsely and rather feebly punctate and glossy ; 

 each bispinose at the apex. Body beneath black or blackish brown ; 

 with the pro- and mesosterna, a small spot above each of the front 

 coxae, an oblique spot on the mesothoracic episterna, a transverse 

 spot at the postero-lateral angles of the metathorax and a narrow 

 band at each side of each of the first three abdominal segments 

 covered with dense silvery-white pubescence. Femora rather 

 thickly jnmctured. 



Length 9-lU ; hreadth 2|-3| mm. 

 Hah. Nepal ; Sikhim : Darjeeling. 



Fig. 99. 



Epipedocera zona, Chevr. J , 



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