156 CEBAMBYCID.E. 



as long as their width across the base, rounded at the apex. 

 Acetabula of front coxae rounded externally, open posteriorly ; 

 the intercoxal process flattened, rather narrow, and scarcely 

 dilated at the end ; the acetabula of the middle coxae do not 

 extend to the epimera. Episterna of metathorax narrow, attenu- 

 ated posteriorly. Legs moderately long ; femora strongly clavate, 

 pedunculate at the base ; first joint of hind tarsus as long as the 

 second and third united. 



162. Trinophylum cribratum, Bates, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 720; id. 

 Scientific Results Second Yarkand Mission, Col. p. 22, pi. 1, fig. 19 

 (1890). 



Chestnut-brown in colour, more or less nitid, sparsely furnished 

 above with short semi-erect fulvous brown 

 hairs. Head and basal joints of antennae 

 finely rugulose-punctate. Prothorax closely 

 and rather strongly punctured ; marked with 

 a feeble sinuate groove or depression near 

 the apex and another near the base ; the 

 disc slightly depressed along the middle, 

 with a very narrow impunctate space behind. 

 Elytra closely and strongly punctured, less 

 strongly near the apex. Body beneath 

 reddish brown, sparsely pubescent, less 

 closely and rather finely punctured ; pro- 



,-,. an sternum transversely depressed a little be- 



Jbig. bo. i j ii i_ j i 



Trinophylum. cribra- nmd the frout margin ; abdomen narrowed 

 turn, Bates, <$ . x J. posteriorly, first segment longest, second to 

 fourth successively shorter. Legs reddish 

 brown, minutely and sparsely punctate. 

 Length 11-13; breadth 3-4 mm. 

 Hab. Murree ; Kashmir ; Assam : Sylhet. 



Genus CERESIUM. 



Ceresium, Newman, Entomologist, i, p. 322 (1842); Lacord. Gen. 



Coleopt. viii, p. 353 (1869). 

 Diatomocephala, lilanchard, Voy. an Pole Sud, Zool. iv, p. 266 



(1853) ; Lacord. 1. c. p. 354. 

 Pneumida, Thorns. Syst. Ceramb. p. 191 (1864). 



Type, C. raripilum, Newm., a species from the Philippine 

 Islands. 



Mange. Oriental Region, China, Oceania, Madagascar, and 

 Mexico. 



Head little exserted, slightly concave between the antennae; 

 front subvertical or oblique ; eyes emarginate, rather widely 

 separated above. Antennae slender, distinctly longer than the 

 body in the cf , very slightly or not longer than it in the ; third 

 joint subequal in length to the first, sometimes slightly longer, 



