284 CERAMBYCID^E. 



pubescence that covers the somewhat quadrate sutural space between 

 the anterior black spot and its fellow is more distinctly yellow in 

 colour than that on the outer parts of the elytra. Body beneath 

 covered with greenish-yellow pubescence, which is denser and 

 more decidedly yellow at the sides ; antennae and legs black, faintly 

 covered with grey pubescence. Antenna? slightly shorter than the 

 body in the cf , reach to the apical third of the elytra in the $ ; 

 third and fourth joints slightly thickened and obsoletely spined at 

 the apex. Prothorax oblong-ovate ; the disc somewhat depressed 

 along the middle, with a feeble median elevation near the base, 

 raised in the form of au obtuse costa at each side ; the sides and 

 the median depressed area of the disc densely punctured. Scutel- 

 lum broad, obtusely rounded at apex, covered with yellowish 

 pubescence. Elytra truncate at the apex, dentate at the angles. 

 Femora rather thick ; the hind pair extend by about a fourth of 

 their length past the apex of the elytra in the <3 , by a little less 

 in the $ . 



Length 13-16 ; breadth 3-4 mm. 



Hob. Assam : Shillong, jSTorth Khasi Hills ; Upper Burma : 

 Ruby Mines (Doherty}. 



340. Demonax nigromaculatus, sp. n. 



Very like .D. oblongomaculatus, Gahan, in form and markings, 

 but covered above with yellow pubescence ; the prothorax marked 

 with two rounded black spots on the disc behind the middle ; the 

 legs and antennae testaceous; the anterior black spots on the 

 elytra exactly like those of oblongomaculatus, but instead of 

 the three at the middle and the three behind the middle there are 

 only two at the middle and two behind, the inner spot in each 

 case oblique or oval, the outer one narrow and elongate ; from 

 each shoulder a black or dark brown line extends about a third of 

 the length of the elytron. Antennas reach to the apical third of 

 the elytra in the 5 ; third, fourth and fifth joints with a minute 

 spine at the apex. The hind femora extend a little past the apex 

 of the elytra in the $ . First joint of hind tarsi twice as long as 

 the second and third united. 



Length 14 ; breadth 34 mm. 



Hob. Sikhim : Pedong (A. Desgodins), in coll. Oberthiir and 

 Brit. Mus. 



B. Antennal spines distinct. 



341. Demonax literatus, Gahan, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. xxxiv, p. 27 



pi. 1, fig. 6 (1894). 



Elongate ; brownish black, densely covered with ochreous- 

 yellow pubescence above, yellow pubescence beneath ; prothorax 

 with a narrow, asperate, slightly raised, median black band near 

 the base, two pubescent black spots on the disc and one on each 

 side a little before the middle ; each elytron is marked with two 



