CEECOTMETUS. 



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Geuus CERCOTMETUS. 



Cercotmetus, Amy. i>,- Serv. Hem. p. 441 (1843); Stal, Hem. Afr. 

 iii,p. 186 (I860); Montand. Bull. Soc. Sci. Bucarest, xii, p. 107 

 (1903). 



Type, C. asiaticus, Amy. & Serv., from Java. 



Distribution, Oriental and Malayan Regions. 



This genus differs from Banatra by the shorter coxfe, and by 

 the length of the anterior femora, which in Gercotmetas are con- 

 siderably shorter than tlie pronotum ; the abdominal appendages 

 are short, but this is a character found in soiue species of Banatra, 

 as, for example, B. gracilis, Uall. 



1496. Cercotmetus fumosus, Dist. Entomologist, 1904, p. 278. 



Uniformly somewhat dark fuscous ; head with a pointed tubercle 

 between the eyes ; hemelytra not reaching the apex of the fifth 

 abdominal segment, the coriaceous portion with some amount of 

 brownish-ochraceous pubescence ; abdominal appendages mutilated 

 in type; abdomen beneath strongly keeled, the keel continued 



on sternum as far as anterior 

 coxte ; prosternum with two long 

 deep furrows ; intermediate and 

 posterior tibiae and tarsi inwardly 

 moderately but prominently pilose ; 

 pronotum as long as intermediate 

 femora. 



By the last character this 

 species is to be distinguished from 

 G. asiaticus, in which the inter- 

 mediate femora are longer than the 

 IH'onotuin ; from G. pilipes, DalL, 

 it is separated by the much less 

 longly pilose inner margins of 

 the intermediate and posterior 

 tibife and the darker colour ; 

 the central carination of the body 

 beneath only reaches the anterior 

 margin of the metasternum, \^hich 

 also separates it from G. com- 

 positus, Montand. 



Length excl. abdom. append. 

 47 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon {Green, Brit. 

 Mvs.). 



Fig. 15. — Cercotmetus fumosus. 



1497. Cercotmetus pilipes, Hall. (Pianatra (Cercotmetus)) Tr. E. S- 

 1849, p. 2, pi. ii, iig. 6 ; Montand. Bull. Soc. Sci. Biicaresti 

 xii, p. 110 (1903). 



" Linear-elongate, yellowish-brown, opaque ; head small, with a 



