394 University of California PuUications [Entomology 



Genus Ceramius Latreille 



Figures 9, 12, 15 

 1904. Euceramius Dalla Torre. Genera Insectorum, fasc. 19, p. 5. 



(^. Head broad, quadrate ; clypeus broader than long, produced 

 medially and truncate ; glossa retractile, but short, when fully ex- 

 tended but little longer than the stipes ; both palpi 4-segmented ; the 

 maxillary palpus small. 



Humeri rounded ; parapsidal furrows present but not deep ; tegula 

 not elongate, scale-like and without coarse punctures, the outer margin 

 entire ; angles of propodeuni entirely rounded. 



Medio-cubital cross-vein attached to Cui ; spur of anterior tibia 

 flattened, arched, with a transparent upper margin and bifid tip ; 

 anterior trochanter alate at apex ; front femur 3-sided, twisted ; middle 

 and hind femora and tibiae compressed, their surfaces regular : an- 

 terior and middle claws with a small median tooth, that of the hind 

 claw minute ; middle tibia with two nearly equal spurs ; longer spur 

 of hind tibia acute, simple. 



Sixth sternite with a very deep median notch exposing a smooth 

 and highly polished area of the seventh ; the apex of the seventh pro- 

 duced into a thickened and truncate lobe. 



Genitalia as described in the table and illustrated in figures. 



The above characters are drawn from the type species. I have not 

 seen a female. 



In its genitalia this departs more radically from the usual type of 

 the family than does any other genus which I have examined. The 

 peculiar series of transverse erect scales beneath the ligula I have not 

 observed elsewhere except in Paraceramius. 



Type. — Ceramius fonscolomhei. 



Habitat. — Africa, Southern Europe, Caucasus. 



Species of CERAMIUSh 



beyeri Brauns, J', $. Cape Colony. 



1903. Ceramius beyeri Brauns, (^, $. Zeitseh. f. systemat. Hymenopter- 

 ologie u. Dipterologie, vol. 3, p. 69. 

 cujfcr Saussure, $. Cape Colony (probably a variety of lichtensteinii). 

 capensis Saussure, $. Cape Colony. 



[capicola Brauns, ^, $. Cape Colony. See Ceramioides.] 

 caucasioun Andre, (^. Caucasus. 

 oonsobrinus Saussure, c?, 5- Cape Colony. 



1913. Ceramius consohrinus Brauns, J', $. Entomologiselie Mitteilungen, 

 vol. 2, p. 194. (First description of male.) 

 fonscolomhei Latreille, c?, $. Mediterranean subregion. 

 [fumipennis Brauns, (^, 5- Cape Colony. See Ceramioides.] 



11 Although these species all stand in literature under this genus, they many 

 of them doubtless belong to Ceramioides or Paraceramius. 



