PUEPUEICENUS. 



185 



Fig. 73. 



Purpuricenus sanyuinolentus, Oliv. 



greater part behind the middle ; these bands vary considerably in 

 width ; in some specimens the black band between them is nearly 

 or quite as wide as the basal band, in others it is much narrower, 



sometimes it is reduced to 

 a transverse spot on each 

 elytron, the red bands united 

 along the sides and suture. 

 Head very densely punctate. 

 Antennae nearly twice as long 

 as the body in large males, 

 with the first joint densely 

 punctulate,and marked with a 

 feeble pit near the base ; the 

 eleventh, which has a long 

 and distinct appendix, more 

 than twice as long as the tenth; 

 scarcely extended past the 

 middle of: the elytra in the 

 $ , the joints from the fifth 

 to the tenth successively wider 

 as well as shorter, the eleventh 

 barely longer than the tenth. Pro thorax of the <S very finely and 

 very densely punctate, and opaque, but with a more coarsely 

 punctured and less opaque area that forms a narrow transverse 

 band at the base from which a short median lobe and two much 

 longer and broader lateral lobes are given off in front ; prothorax 

 of 5 very densely and rather strongly punctured over the whole 

 of the upper surface. Elytra finely and rather densely punctulate 

 on the red areas, very densely and somewhat less finely punctulate 

 on the black parts. Femora thicklv and rather strongly punctate. 

 First joint of the hind tarsi much shorter than the next two 

 united. Intercoxal process of prosternum truncate or slightly 

 tuberculate posteriorly, that of the mesosternum with a small 

 conical tubercle. 



Length 12-21 ; breadth 3|-7 \ mm. 



Nab. Ceylon ; India : Trivandrum, Madras, Poona, North 

 Bengal. 



The Sunda Islands are mentioned by Lacordaire as the habitat 

 of this species, but probably in error. Olivier himself did not 

 know the locality from which his specimen came. Of the speci- 

 mens which I have seen, those from Ceylon agree best in the 

 colour and extent of the elytral bands with the figure which he 

 has given. 



201. Purpuricenus nialacceusis, Lacord. (Philagatlies) Gen. Coleopt. 



ix, p. 176, note 2 (1869). 



Purpuricenus fasciatus, Brongn. Nouv. Archiv. du Mus. (3) iii, 

 p. 241, pi. 10, fig. 5 (1891). 



Very like P. sanguinolentus, Oliv., but with the transverse bands 

 of the elytra narrower, and generally of a much paler, yellowish- 



