170 



CEKAMBYCID.E. 



abruptly clavate, with a rather long slender peduncle at the base ; 

 the hind pair as long as the abdomen in the c? ; tarsi slender, with 

 the first joint in the hind pair as long as the second and third 

 united. Front coxae strongly exserted, their acetabula angulated 

 on the outer side, open posteriorly ; the intercoxal process very 



183. Molorchus taprobanicus, sp. n. 



c? . Pitch-black and nitid, with the legs somewhat reddish at 

 the base, and the abdomen furnished with patches of greyish- 

 white pubescence at the sides. Antennae 11-jointed, more than 

 twice as long as the body ; third joint slightly shorter than the 

 fourth, the latter distinctly shorter 

 than the fifth, sixth to tenth gradually 

 and successively longer ; eleventh not 

 longer than the tenth, its appendix 

 very short and somewhat curved. 

 Prothorax with a small conical tubercle 

 on each side ; the disc with a short, 

 narrow, median and two longer, lateral 

 callosities, which are smooth and 

 glossy, the narrow interspaces between 

 them closely punctured. Elytra not 

 longer than the prothorax, extended 

 posteriorly as far as to the posterior 

 border of the metasternum; sparsely 

 punctate, very glossy, depressed in the 

 middle, each sharply rounded at the 

 apex. Femora rather strongly clavate ; 

 middle tibiae slightly dilated on the 

 inner side just before the middle ; the 

 hind tibiae somewhat sinuately bent. First joint of the hind tarsus 

 a little longer than the second and third united. 



Length (to apex of abdomen) 8 mm., of elytra 2 mm. 

 Hob. Ceylon. 



Fig. 67. 



Molorchus taprobanicus, 

 Gahan, tf . 



184. Molorchus filiformis, Motsch. Etudes Entom. 1858, p. 67. 



" Elongate, parallel-sided, subfiliform, nitid, sparsely and 

 coarsely punctured, black ; antennae at base, tibiae and tarsi 

 rufo-piceous. Elytra rounded at the apex, marked with a whitish- 

 testaceous, transverse, subsinuate spot in the middle of each 

 elytron ; thorax elongate, slightly dilated posteriorly, constricted 

 at base ; elytra short, shorter than the length of the thorax, 

 depressed at the suture, margined, rounded at both sides of 

 apex. 



" Length 2^ breadth g lines. 



"Hab. Ceylon. 



" Much narrower than either M, dimidiatus or M. umbdlatus, 



