XYLOTBECHUS. 



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margin of the eyes. Prothorax ovate-cylindrical, almost as wide 

 in the middle as the base of the elytra. Hind femora extend a 

 little past the apex of the elytra in the $ . Antennas half as long 

 as the body in the $ ; third joint subequal in length with the first, 

 longer than the fourth or fifth. 



Length 10 ; breadth 2^ mm. 



Hob. Burma : Euby Mines district (Doherty). 



II. Eyes smaller ; face not contracted in the middle. 

 A. Sides of face nearly parallel ; the carince straight. 



276. Xylotrechus quadripes, Chevr. Mem. Soc. R. Sci. de Liege, xviii, 

 p. 315 (1863) ; Dunning, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1868, p. 126 & fig. 



Black ; with a greyish or yellowish pubescence that covers the 

 greater part of the head and prothorax and forms bands on the 



elytra; disc of prothorax 

 with a rounded, sub- 

 asperate, black spot in 

 the middle and a smaller 

 black spot at each side ; 

 the elytral bands consist 

 of the following: (1) a 

 basal transverse band ; 

 (2) a short oblique band 

 that points towards the 

 shoulder in one direction 

 and towards the angle of 

 the next band in the 

 other ; (3) a band which 

 begins a little behind 

 the scutellum, runs close 

 by the suture for a short 

 distance, then diverges 

 from it posteriorly and 

 turns outwards to the side ; (4) a transverse or slightly oblique 

 band behind the middle which gradually widens towards the suture ; 

 (5) an apical baud with oblique front margin. Body beneath with 

 dense white pubescence along the borders of the metasternum 

 and formed into a spot on each of the mesothoracic episterna, a 

 large spot on each of the metathoracic episterna, and a lateral 

 transverse spot on the posterior half of each of the first three 

 abdominal segments ; the fourth and fifth segments almost com- 

 pletely but less densely covered with greyish- white pubescence ; 

 legs black, the femora varying in colour from testaceoift to black, 

 cf . Face with a more or less distinct median carina, between 

 which and each of the lateral carinse there is an elongated, very 

 finely rugulose, opaque black area with slightly raised edges. 



Fig. 90. Xylotrechus quadripcs, Chevr. X J. 



