308 CEEAMBYCID.I. 



raised, transverse, ivory -yellow band, which is smooth and some- 

 ^\•hat angulate in front, S])arsely punctured posteriorly, and reaches 

 neither to the suture nor to the outer margin. Head closely 

 punctate. Antennae a little longer than the body in the c? , shoi'ter 

 in the $ ; first seven joints brownish red and glossy, the last four 

 dull brownish black, with a faint grey pubescence : third to eighth 

 channelled above. Prothorax rounded, but scarcely protidjerant, 

 at the sides, strongly constricted at the base and narrowed a 

 little in front ; its width across not greater than its length along 

 the middle ; the surface closely reticulately-punctate up to the 

 edge of the basal emargination. tScutellum densely covered with 

 white pubescence. Elytra moderately and not very thickly punc- 

 tured, sparsely covered Avith setigerous granules ; narrowed from 

 the base to the middle and slightly widened again posteriorly ; 

 each elytron subtruncately rounded and unarmed at rhe apex. 

 Body beneath yellow ish brown, marked as in E. zona with spots 

 and patches of dense white pubescence. Legs reddish ; femora 

 punctate, the hind pair very closely so. 



Len{ith 9-II2 ; hreadtli 2|-3 mm. 



Hah. Nepal ; Darjeeling. 



Genus CENTROTOCLYTUS. 



Centrotoclytus, MotscladsTnj, Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou, 18G3, No. ii, 



p. 496. 

 Ejiipedocera, Chevr. (part.) Mem. Sue. JR. Sei. de Licr/e, xviii, p. 339 



(1863). 

 Phmoone, Thorns. Syst. Ceravih. p. lo4 (1864) ; Lacord. Gen. Coli'opt. 



viii, p. 537 (1869 j. 



Type, C. quadridens, Motsch. 



Mange. Ceylon, Andaman Is., and Malay Peninsula. 



Agrees generally in form and structure with Epi2^>edoce ra,Q\\e\v . ; 

 the following characters, however, serve to distinguish it from 

 that genus : — Second joint of the antennse much longer than broad, 

 nearly half as long as the third ; mesonotum provided with a 

 stridulatory area ; elytra furnished each \A"ith a rather sharp lateral 

 carina, reaching nearl}- to the shoulder in front and to within a 

 variable distance of the apex posteriorly. 



The type species of this genus looks like a small Einjpedocera VLwd 

 was, in fact, included in that genus by Chevrolat, who thereby 

 clearly I'ecognized its true affinities. It is remarkable, therefore, 

 that both by Thomson and Lacordaire it was placed in a group 

 widely separated from EjnjJedocera and its allies. 



3S0. Centrotoclytus quadridens, Mo(sc/i. Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou, 

 1863, No. ii, p. 4!Hi: id. (Ceutroclvtus) I.e. 1861, No. i, pi. 9, 

 fio. 31. 



Epipedocera setulosa, Chcvr. Mem. Soc. JR. Sci. de Lietje, x\\\\, 

 p. 342 (1863). 



Plaiigone bisebm-ata, Thorns. Si/st. Ceramb. p. lo5 (186-J). 



Eeddish brown to dark brown in colour : prothorax with a 



