SOTHOPEUS. 203 



222. Nothopeus hemipterus, OUv. (Cerambyx) Entom. iv, no. 67, 



p. 127, pi. 23, fig. 181 (1795) ; Fab. (Stenocorus) Syst. Eleuth. ii, 

 p. 310 (1801) ; Serv. (Colubus) Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. ii, p. 555 

 (1833). 



Black, more or less tinged with violaceous or dark blue ; vertex 

 of head, prothorax and elytra covered with black tomentum, which 

 is denser and somewhat velvety in appearance on the pronotum ; 

 wings somewhat variable in colour, in some specimens dark brown 

 passing into dull tawny towards the 

 edges, in others entirely violaceous blue ; 

 body beneath rather faintly covered 

 with pubescence which for the most 

 part is blackish, but on the sides of the 

 posterior half of the first abdominal 

 segment has a silvery grey lustre. 

 Antennae about equal in length to the 

 body in the J , reaching but little past 

 the apices of the elytra in the $ . Pro- 

 thorax armed with a small conical 

 tubercle just before the middle of each 

 side, narrowed posteriorly the lateral 

 tubercles, constricted and transversely 

 depressed at the base ; the disc a little 

 protuberant on each side just in front 

 of the basal depression. Elytra ex- 

 tended a little beyond the hind coxae in 

 the $ , and not beyond them in the J > 

 approximate at the suture for less than half their length, then 

 strongly dehiscent, each in its posterior half so as to form a 

 triangle with its inner side strongly oblique and its outer side 

 nearly straight, the apex acute in the 5 , slightly obtuse in the c? . 

 Hind tibiae strongly compressed, widest about the middle, narrowed 

 slightly towards the apex and more strongly towards the base ; 

 first joint of the hind tarsus as long as the remaining joints 

 united. 



Length 22-30 ; breadth 5-8 mm. 

 Hob. Northern India ; Burma ; Java. 



223. Nothopeus flllvus, Bates (Colobus), Cist. Entom. ii, p. 395 



(1879). 



Head, prothorax, elytra, wings, antennae and legs fulvous ; 

 vertex of head, prothorax and elytra covered with dense golden 

 pubescence; body beneath dark brown more or less strongly 

 tinged with steel-blue to a variable extent, this dark colour limited 

 in some specimens to the anterior half of each of the abdominal 

 segments, while in others it extends to almost the whole of the 

 ventral surface of the body and to the dorsal surface of the 

 abdomen, as well ; the hind femora also sometimes touched with 

 dark blue near the base. Head glabrous and more or less punctate 



Fig. IS.Nothopeus 

 hemipterus, Oliv., 2 



