150 



CERAMBTCID^E. 



II. Elytra without glabrous dark brown streaks posteriorly. 



A. Prothorax irregularly rugose, without longitudinal 

 costa above. 



154. Xoanodera amcena, Pascoe, A. M. N. H. (5) xv, p. 53 (1885). 



Dark brown to brownish black in colour : the elytra covered 

 for the greater part with a dense yellowish-white pubescence, each 

 with a basal spot close to the scutellum and a lateral plaga 

 that extends from the shoulder to a little past the middle, 

 deeply and very strongly punctured and bare of pubescence, the 

 narrow border between the submarginal carina and the outer 

 margin sparsely pubescent. Head and first antennal joint closely 

 rugulose-punctate. Antennae reddish brown, with a faint covering 

 of grey pubescence. Prothorax strongly and irregularly rugose, 

 scantily clothed with patches of tawny pubescence, unevenly 

 rounded at the sides, marked near the apex with one and at the 

 base with two transverse grooves. Elytra each feebly bidentate 

 at the apex. Breast and abdomen rather densely, the legs less 

 densely, covered with greyish-white pubescence. 



Length 15-19| ; breadth 4^-5 mm. 



Hub. Ceylon : S. India : Trivandrum, Kanara, Anaimalai and 

 Nilgiri Hills. 



B. Prothorax with four or more straight longitudinal costcp, above. 



155. Xoanodera regnlaris, Gahan, A. M. N. H. (6) v, p. 52 (1890). 



? Xoanodera pascoei, Brongn. 

 Nouv. Archiv. du Mus. (3) 

 iii, p. 239 (1891). 



Very like X. amcena, Pasc., but 

 generally of a much darker brown 

 or almost black colour, and readily 

 distinguishable from that species 

 by the four or more straight, 

 sharp longitudinal ridges on the 

 disc of the prothorax and a 

 rather dense covering of yel- 

 lowish-white pubescence on the 

 sides. In other respects it agrees 

 closely in structure with'Z. amwna, 

 while the puncturation and mark- 

 ings of the elytra are almost 

 identical. 

 Fig. 60. Length 17-21; breadth 5- 



Xoanodera regularis, Gahan. X J. 6 mm. 



Hab. N. India?; Burma: 



Ruby Mines ; Karenee (Doherty} Tenasserim : Thagata (Fea) 



Tavoy (Doherty}. 



