18 CATALOGUE OF CUCCJIDA. 



Family III. TRTCTEN0T0M1D.E. 



Trictenotomides, Chev. MSS. 



Genus 1. TRICTENOTOMA. 

 Trictenotoma, Gray, Griff. An. King. i. 534, 1824. 



1. Trictenotoma Childreni. 



Trictenotoma Childreni, G. R. Gray, Griff. An. King. Ins. i. 5;J4, 

 t. 5, 5*. Westw. Cab. Orient. Ent. 48, t. 23, f. 1, 2, $ , c? • 



Trictenotoma Schrildreni, GuSrin, Mag. Zool. t. 36. (Childreni). 

 1832- 3. 



a. East Indies, Tenasserim Coast. From Mr. Children's collection. 

 (The type specimen described by Mr. Gray). 



2. Trictenotoma ^nea. 



Trictenotoma aenea, Westw. Cab. Orient. Ent. 48, 7, t. 23, f. 3, $ . 

 Hab. — Himalayas. 



3. Trictenotoma Templetonii. 



Trictenotoma Templetonii, Westw. Cab. Orient. Ent. 48. t. 23, f. 

 2, $ . Parry, Trans. Ent. Soc. v. 83, 1848. 



Hab. — Ceylon. 



4. Trictenotoma Gbatii, n. s. 



Fem. — Head and thorax black ; entirely clothed above with ful- 

 vous pubescence ; the mandibles shorter than the head, subf'alcate, 

 their apical teeth crossing : thorax transverse, the basal angles acute, 

 the sides doubly angulaled, the apex of the first angle being about 

 one-ihird from the basal angle, the second about the same distance 

 from the apical angle, but less acute ; on the disk of the thorax are 

 two denuded prominences : abdomen ; the elytra of a purple metallic 



