422 Mr. H. W. Bates on Ceramhycidce 



constrictus, supra Isevis. Elytra oblongo-quadrata, pos- 

 tice rotundato-dilatata, apice late obtuse rotundata, prope 

 suturam leviter truncata, supra grosse reticulata. Pedes 

 breves, validi ; femora clavata, prope apicem subtus valide 

 spinosa; tarsi breves, articulo Imo breviter cordate. 

 Prosternum apice acute tuberculatum. Mesosternum 

 latum, paulo concavum. Acetabulaantica extus angulata; 

 coxce anticae haud exsertae. Acetabula intermedia extus 

 paululum aperta. 



The structure of the prothorax, with its sharp constric- 

 tion near the fore and hind margins, similar to Phimosia 

 and Trachelia, joined to other minor characters, seem to 

 indicate the place of this anomalous genus to be in the 

 present sub-family, rather than in the Trachyderince, 

 where I formerly was inclined to place it, or in the 

 Tropidosomatince, where Lacordaire has preferred to 

 leave it. 



1. Streptolabis Mspoides. 

 Bates, Entom. Monthly Mag. iv. 23. 



Subdepressa, corallino-rufa, an tennis (articulo Imo 

 excepto) nigris ; elytris nigris, subtiliter rugosis, opacis, 

 lineis elevatis lasvibus reticulatis, utrinque maculis 

 magnis sex apiceque coccineis; capite et mandibulis 

 rugoso-punctatis ; thorace sparsim punctulato. 



Long. 7i lin. 



nah. — Ega ; on the trunk of a dead tree. 



Has a great resemblance to the Hispid, Ccpltalodonta 

 spinipes, and also, in colour and form, to Erythroplatys 

 coralltfer (sub-fam. BMnotraginoe). 



Sub-fam. P(ECiLOPEPLm-E. 



Genus Poecilopeplus. 



Thomson, Classif. des Ceramb. p. 205 ; Lacord. Gen. ix. 



147. 



1. Foecilopeplns Batesii. 



White, Cat. Longic. Brit. Mus. p. 56, pi. iii. f. 1, c?. 



Niger, elytris lajte rufis, fasciis quatuor angustis nigris 

 abrupte flexuosis, prima interrupta, quarta in medio 

 dupla, aunulum formante. 



