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exhibit bands or patches, some duller, some brighter, like watered 

 silk, which change in brilliancy according to the incidence of the 

 light ; antennae and legs with a thinner and more uniform 

 greyish pubescence. Head with a straight or very feebly bisinuate 

 furrow beneath between the cheeks. Third joint of the an- 

 tennae smooth, gradually thickened at the apex. Prothorax 

 rounded at each side; irregularly wrinkled above, with a sub- 

 central smooth space which is limited on each side by a longi- 

 tudinal impression and marked sometimes, especially near its 

 anterior end, with a median groove. 



Length 20-35 ; breadth 5|-10 mm. 



Hob. North-West India ; Bombay ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon ; Assam ; 

 Tenasserim ; Andaman and Nicobar Islands ; Siam ; Malay 

 Peuinsuia. 



125. 2Eolesth.es sinensis, Gahan, A. M. N. H. (6) vi, p. 255 (1890). 



Very like ^E. 7zo7osmV-m,Fab.,but distinguishable by the following 

 characters : Prothorax somewhat angulate at the middle of each 

 side in both sexes ; the upper surface more completely wrinkled, 

 the subcentral space inclosed between the two longitudinal impres- 

 sions almost as strongly wrinkled as the rest of the surface, and 

 this space also completely divided by a median groove. The 

 elytra are as a rule somewhat darker in colour, and the pubescence, 

 which usually has a yellowish or brownish tint, appears more 

 broken up into patches. 



Length 25-30 ; breadth 6 -9 mm. 



Nab. Upper Burma ; Southern China. 



126. JEolesthes indllta, Newman (Harnmaticherus'), Entomologist, i, 



p. 245 (1842). 



Extremely like JE. Jwlosericea, Fab., in size, form, coloration, &c., 

 but with the furrow which crosses the underside of the head 

 between the cheeks very clearly defined, and strongly arched 

 backwards in the middle : this character alone serves to distin- 

 guish it from holosericea, in which the furrow is either straight, 

 slightly arched forwards, or feebly bisinuate, and not quite so deep 

 and well defined. 



Length 23-38 ; breadth 6-ll| mm. 



Hob. Ceylon ; Upper Burma : Bhamo (Fea) ; Siam ; Sumatra ; 

 Java ; Borneo ; Philippine Islands. 



127. JEolesthes indicola, Sates (Neocerambyx), Entomologist, xxiv, 



Suppl. p. 21 (1891). 



Closely allied to &. holosericea, Fab., and ^. induta, Newm. ; 

 agrees with them in the form of the prothorax and in that it has 

 the sixth to eighth antennal joints armed with a distinct spine at 

 the apex on the posterior side. The rugosities of the prothorax are 

 more confused and the oblong discoidal plate much less defined and 



