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  Mr. 
  J. 
  O. 
  Westwood's 
  Description 
  

  

  singulo 
  lineis 
  quatuor 
  longitudinalibus 
  gracilibus 
  parum 
  ele- 
  

   vatis, 
  fulva, 
  dimidio 
  apicali 
  iiigro, 
  sutura 
  et 
  lateribus 
  tenuiter 
  

   fulvis. 
  Corpus 
  infra 
  pallide 
  fiilvum. 
  Pedes 
  fulvi, 
  femoribus 
  

   supra 
  articuloque 
  4to 
  tarsorum 
  fuscis. 
  

   Taken 
  by 
  Major 
  Champion 
  at 
  Narrawille, 
  near 
  Galle, 
  in 
  Ceylon, 
  

   in 
  the 
  month 
  of 
  August, 
  184G. 
  

  

  PI. 
  XII. 
  fig. 
  5, 
  Insectum 
  valde 
  auctum 
  ; 
  5a, 
  caput 
  antice 
  visum; 
  5fe, 
  tnandi- 
  

   bulfe 
  et 
  labrum; 
  5c, 
  maxilla; 
  bd, 
  labium 
  et 
  palpi 
  labiales 
  ; 
  6e, 
  tarsus. 
  

  

  Fam. 
  LONGICORNES. 
  

   Genus 
  Clytellus, 
  fVestw. 
  

   Corpus 
  parvuin, 
  convexum, 
  medio 
  valde 
  constrictum. 
  Caput 
  

   parvum 
  verticale, 
  partibus 
  oris 
  parvis. 
  Labrum 
  breve 
  trans- 
  

   versum, 
  angulis 
  anticis 
  rotundatis 
  ciliatis. 
  Mandibulce 
  parvae 
  

   subtriangulares, 
  apice 
  acutas. 
  MaxilLv 
  minutae, 
  basi 
  extus 
  

   elongatae 
  bilobae, 
  lobo 
  externo 
  apice 
  latiori 
  integro 
  longe 
  

   ciliato. 
  Palpi 
  maxillares 
  minuti, 
  articulis 
  3bus 
  basalibus 
  

   brevibus 
  ; 
  ultimo 
  magno 
  obconico, 
  apice 
  recte 
  truncato. 
  

   Mentum 
  breve 
  transversum, 
  margine 
  antico 
  in 
  medio 
  parum 
  

   rotundato, 
  angulis 
  anticis 
  lateralibus 
  extus 
  productis. 
  La~ 
  

   bium 
  breve, 
  profunda 
  emarginatum. 
  Palpi 
  labiales 
  maxil- 
  

   laribus 
  magnitudine 
  et 
  forma 
  similes. 
  Antenna; 
  corpore 
  paullo 
  

   breviores 
  tenues, 
  11-articulatae, 
  simplices. 
  Oculi 
  parvi, 
  rotun- 
  

   dati, 
  integri. 
  Prothorax 
  elongatus, 
  convexus, 
  antice 
  capitis 
  

   latitudine, 
  lateribus 
  inermibus 
  paullo 
  rotundatis, 
  versus 
  par- 
  

   tem 
  posticam 
  profunde 
  constrictus. 
  Elytra 
  brevia, 
  valde 
  

   convexa, 
  ante 
  medium 
  parum 
  constricta, 
  pone 
  medium 
  paullo 
  

   dilatata 
  et 
  inflata, 
  versus 
  basin 
  scabro 
  et 
  tuberculis 
  duobus 
  

   acutis 
  reflexis 
  instructa. 
  Pedes\Qr\g\, 
  femoribus 
  pone 
  medium 
  

   iacrassatis. 
  Tibice 
  et 
  tarsi 
  simplices. 
  

   The 
  curious 
  little 
  Longicorn 
  beetle, 
  which 
  is 
  the 
  type 
  of 
  this 
  

   genus, 
  has 
  more 
  the 
  appearance 
  of 
  an 
  ant 
  or 
  female 
  Methoca 
  than 
  

   that 
  of 
  a 
  Coleopterous 
  insect. 
  It 
  appears 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  Eastern 
  

   representative 
  of 
  the 
  Enoplophorce 
  of 
  the 
  New 
  World. 
  

  

  Clytellus 
  methocoides. 
  (Plate 
  XII. 
  fig. 
  6.) 
  

   C 
  cyaneo-niger, 
  pronoto 
  striato-punctato, 
  elytris 
  basi 
  carneo- 
  

   castaneis 
  rude 
  oblongo-punctatis, 
  ultra 
  basin 
  glaberrimis 
  

   nigro-cyaneis 
  nitidissimis 
  Isevibus, 
  apicibus 
  albo-hirtis. 
  

   Long. 
  Corp. 
  lin. 
  2 
  vel 
  3. 
  

   Habitat 
  prope 
  Hong 
  Kong, 
  China. 
  Major 
  Champion. 
  

  

  