and Species of Longicorn Coleoptera* 257 



Bright vermilion, with a few longish hairs ; eyes, antennas, ex- 

 cept the basal part of the first joint, tibiae and tarsi, black; pro- 

 thorax and elytra finely punctured ; front below the eyes produced. 



Length 4 lines. 



Amphionycha cephalotes. 

 A. fulvo-testacea ; elytris subsericeo-grisescentibus, marginibus, 

 antennis, articulis quatuor apicalibus exceptis, tibiisque 

 posticis nigris. Para. 

 Head and thorax testaceous yellow ; elytra somewhat silky, 

 greyish, the external margins black ; under surface and legs 

 testaceous, except the posterior tibiae, which, with the eyes and 

 antennae, are black, the four last joints of the latter, however, 

 being pale yellow. 

 Length 3| lines. 



Head rather wider than the thorax, which is somewhat narrower 

 than the elytra, the latter slightly contracted in the middle and 

 rounded at the apex. 



Saperda erythaca. 



S. nigra; capite luted, prothoraceque subtilissime punctatis; elytris 

 fuliginosis, disco pallidiori. Natal. 



Head luteous red, and with the thorax very finely punctured, 

 the latter, eyes, antennae, body beneath, and legs dull black ; 

 elytra coarsely punctured, smoky black, with the disc paler. 



Length 4 lines. ' 



Saperda Bohemani. 



S. atra, cinereo-pubescens ; capite, prothoraceque mediocriter 

 punctatis, hoc utrinque tritubereulato ; elytris punctatis, 

 punctis magnis nigro-nitidis ; antennis annulatis. Natal. 



Black, with a cinereous pubescence ; prothorax with six shining 

 black tubercles, two near the anterior margin and two on each 

 side; elytra covered with large black shining punctures, caused 

 by the absence of pubescence ; antennae black, the basal half of 

 each joint, from the third to the last inclusive, and under surface 

 and legs, cinereous. 



Length 5 lines. 



This is the S. irrorata, Boh. of collections, but as there is already 

 a Fabrician Saperda of that name, and, moreover, it has not been 

 published, I have altered it as above, and dedicated it to the well 



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