138 Zoological Society : — 



of the thorax over the scutellum is straight, and not sUghtly notched 

 as in that species ; the scutenum also is more pointed. 



3. ^Egosoma ornaticolle, White, ^g. capite et thorace ni- 

 gris, verrucis minutis scabrinsculis ; thorace plagis quatuor 

 pilis aureis tectis ; elytris obscure ferrugineo-brunneis, sutura 

 {apice spinigerd) margineque nigris ; antennarum articulis ter- 

 tio quarto et quinto basi asperis. — Long. hn. 25. 



Hab. E. Indies. Coll. Brit. Mus. 



Head black, covered with small warts, with a smooth line down the 

 middle, ending in a small smooth depression in the space between 

 the antennae. Mandibles strongly punctured, tips and inner edge 

 smooth : antennae with the basal joint thickly covered with small 

 warts ; the third, fourth and fifth scabrous, the projections more 

 distant from each other than they are on the basal joint ; sixth 

 and following joints short and smooth. Thorax thickly covered 

 with small warts, with four small spots covered with golden yellow 

 hairs ; two of these spots on the fore-margin, two on the posterior 

 margin, somewhat more distant from each other than the two fore 

 ones ; the hairs are all more or less directed towards the centre of 

 the spot. Elytra smooth, dull ferruginous brown, the suture and 

 margins black, the suture spined at the apex. 



4. ^GOSOMA MARGINALE. 



Cerambyx marginalis, Fabr. Syst. El. ii. 280. 

 Hab. China, Hong Kong {J. C. Boivring, Esq.) ; Cape of Good 

 Hope {Fabr.). Coll. Brit. Mus. 



5. ^Egosoma Cingalense, WTiite. Mg. antennarum articulis 

 tertio et quarto scabriusculis et breviter jinlosis ; thorace spina 

 brevi lateraU, dorso excavato ; elytris costatis pilisque jlaves- 

 ceatibus tectis, sutura apice mutica. — Long. lin. 1 7-20^. 



Hab. Ceylon. Coll. Brit. Mus. and Capt. Parry. 



Head between and behind the eyes more or less covered with de- 

 cumbent yellowish hairs ; antennae with the basal joint scabrous and 

 punctured ; third joint very long, slightly curved, somewhat rough, 

 and rather thickly covered with short yello^>ish hairs ; fourth joint 

 as long as the fifth and sixth joints taken together, somewhat bent, 

 rather rough, and covered with short yellowish hairs, except at 

 the tip, which is smooth ; the fifth and following joints without 

 hairs. Thorax with the sides angled, the angle terminating in a 

 small sharpish spine ; the posterior edge margined ; middle of the 

 back hollowed out, sides somewhat nodulose ; surface punctured and 

 more or less thickly covered with yellowish adpressed hairs. Scu- 

 tellum with yellowish adpressed hairs. Elytra very long, rather 

 flat, with two or three not very prominent costae, and rendered less 

 distinct by the yellowish adpressed hairs which more or less thickly 

 cover the surface ; end of the elytra gradually rounded oif ; suture 

 without a spine. Abdomen beneath smooth, shining. Legs com- 

 pressed, somewhat scabrous, brown, with shortish yellow hairs. 



6. ^GOSOMA SULCIPENNE, White. Mg. thoracis lateribus sub- 



