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CEKAMBYCID.E. 



in the male ; the disc with three shallow depressions. Legs less 

 scabrous than those of the male. Prosternum nitid, very sparsely 

 punctate ; hind breast sparsely pubescent and feebly punctured 

 at the sides. 



Length 33-60 mm. 



Sab. Nilgiri Hills. 



35. ZooWax elateroides, Thorns. Rev. et May. de Zool. 1877, p. 274 ; 

 Lameere (Macrotoma), M6m. Soc. Ent. Belg. xi, p. 171 (1903). 



cJ . Almost entirely of a dull reddish-brown colour, the head, 

 prothorax and base of the antennae somewhat darker than the 

 rest. Mandibles rugosely punctured, except near the tip ; head 



rather strongly punctured 

 in front and on the vertex, 

 closely and finely granulate 

 behind, impressed above with 

 a fine median groove. An- 

 tennae with the first joint 

 coarsely punctured, somewhat 

 flattened above, canaliculate 

 below ; third much broader 

 and thicker than any of the 

 following joints, nearly as 

 long as the fourth, fifth, and 

 sixth united. Pronotum very 

 uneven in the middle, the 

 anterior two shiny depressions 

 having two swellings in front 

 of them and two larger ones 

 behind ; a median impressed 

 line extends from the base 

 to a point in line w r ith the 

 anterior depressions. Elytra 

 finely granulated ; each with 

 three or four feebly raised 

 lines, the interspace between 

 the suture and the inner- 

 .p. 14 most line somewhat raised 



Zooblax elateroides,' Thorns., tf, frotn the base to tb - e middle 



and metasternum of the same. and more coarsely granulated 



than the rest of the surface. 



Legs long ; the femora of the front pair asperate in front, some- 

 what transversely wrinkled behind, denticulate beneath ; tibiae 

 of the same pair very long, slightly curved, asperate in front 

 and behind, denticulate beneath ; middle and hind legs sparsely 

 punctulate, with the lower margins asperate or denticulate ; first 

 joint of all the tarsi narrow and as long as the second and third 

 united. Hind breast slightly pubescent at the sides and in the 

 glossy space in the middle. 



