ZOODES. 115 



Length 12-29 ; breadth 4-7| mm. 



Hob. India; Ceylon; Burma; Andamans. Mauritius; Bourbon; 

 Madagascar. 



109. Stromatium longicome, Newman (Arhopalus), Entomologist, i, 



p. 246 (1840). 

 Stromatium asperulurn, White, Cat. Col. Brit. Mus., Longic. p. 300 



(1855). 

 ? Stromatium laticolle, Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (3) iii, p. 532 



Varies from testaceous to dark brown in colour, rather densely 

 covered with greyish-tawny pubescence. Antennae nearly twice 

 as long as the body in the d" , a little longer than the body in 

 the 5 ; first joint closely punctulate, canaliculate anteriorly near 

 the base in the d 1 . Prothorax strongly and densely punctate, 

 the punctures more or less hidden by the pubescence; dilated 

 and somewhat rounded at the sides in the male, its width across 

 the middle equal to that of the elytra and marked with a 

 large, densely tomentose depression on each side ; more sharply 

 rounded at the sides in the female ; the disc with four very feeble 

 obtuse tubercles and a submedian callosity. Elytra rounded at 

 the apex, armed each with a sutural spine ; the surface rather 

 densely punctured, the punctures more or less covered over by 

 the pubescence, marked also with numerous large conspicuous 

 punctures with raised front edges each with a tawny seta. 



This is a widely distributed species, and the variation in size is 

 pretty considerable. In some males the prothorax is relatively 

 not so wide as in larger males ; it is possible that S. laticolle, 

 Pasc., founded upon a large male from Batchian Island, is only 

 a form in which the prothorax has reached its maximum of 

 development. 



Length 17-25 ; breadth 4|-7| mm. 



Hab. Assam (Doherty) ; Upper Burma : Teinzo (Fea). Hong 

 Kong ; South China ; Siam ; Malay Peninsula ; Philippines ; 

 Borneo ; Celebes ; Ceram ; Amboina ; Batchian. 



Genus ZOODES. 



Zoodes, Pascoe, A. M. N. H. (3) xix, p. 319 (1867) ; Lacord. Gen. 

 Coleopt. viii, p. 281 (1869). 



Type, Z. maculatus, "White. 



Range. Ceylon, India. Burma, Malay Peninsula. 



Head with a transverse ridge between the antennae, acutely 

 prominent on each side, especially in the d 1 ; front short, trans- 

 versely depressed at its junction with the clypeus ; eyes deeply 

 emarginate, with large lower and narrow upper lobe. Antennas 

 sparsely pilose, about one-third longer than the body in the c? , a 

 little Jonger than the body in the $ ; first joint short, pyriform or 

 obconical ; third a little longer than the fourth ; fourth to tenth 



