EHONDIA. 79 



joint deeply bilobed. Front coxae subcontiguous, the iutercoxal 

 process very narrow behind ; their acetabula open posteriorly. 

 Wings with first cubital vein bifurcate, second cubital joined to the 

 first and to the first anal, the latter with a very distinct and rather 

 large elliptical cell. 



73. Oxymirus cursor, Linn. (Cerambyx) Syst. Nat. ed. 10, p. 393 



(1758) ; Oliv. (Stenocorus) Ent. iv, uo. 69, p. 14, pi. 1, tig. 9 



(1795). 

 d 1 = Cerambyx noctis, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, p. 630 (1766) ; Oliv. 



(Stenocorus) /. c. p. 17, pi. 1, fig. 10. 

 c? = *Toxotus lacordairei, $, Pascoe, Proc. Ent. Soc. 1867 r 



p. Ixxxiv. 



c? . Most often nearly black, faintly covered above, more densely 

 beneath, with grey pubescence. Head and prothorax finely 

 and very densely punctate ; furnished 

 sparsely with some longish hairs, 

 especially on the sides. Scutellum 

 rather densely pubescent. Elytra 

 rugose, each with an obtuse costa 

 that extends along almost its whole 

 length from the shoulder and two 

 feebler and shorter costae along the 

 disc, the intervals between the costae 

 depressed, forming shallow channels. 

 Last ventral segment elongate, nar- 

 rowed posteriorly, subsinuately trun- 

 cate at the apex, strongly carinate 

 along the middle. 



. Exceptionally coloured like the 

 Fig. 31 ma ] e t,ut usua Uy differs as follows: 



Oxywrus , Lmn., rf . & ^^ brQad ch( f gtnut _ red band a]ong 



the middle of each elytron and another 



along the side margin, the two bands uniting at the apex ; the 

 legs to a great extent and the antennae reddish brown ; last 

 ventral segment scarcely longer than the penultimate, not carinate 

 along the middle ; antennae shorter than in the male. 



Length 15-18 ; breadth 5-6 mm. 



Bab. Baluchistan : Quetta ; Central and Southern Europe and 

 "Western Asia. 



Genus RHONDIA, g. n. 



Type, R. pugnax, Dohrn (Leptura). 

 Range. That of the type species. 



Head strongly exserted ; narrowed gradually and very slightly 

 from the eyes posteriorly until near the occiput and then more 



* This name was applied to two specimens, each belonging to a distinct and 

 well-known European species, the one described as the male being a female of 

 Toxotus meridianus, Linn., and that described as the female, a male of 



Oxymirus cvrsor. 



