30 PRIONID^. 



1. ^GOSOMA SCABRICORNE. B.M. 



Cerambyx scabricornis, Scop. Ent. Cam. 54. 

 Prionus scabricornis, Fabr. Syst. El. ii. 258. 



Oliv. CoZ. iv.t. 11. f. 42 ?. 



La(r. R. A. v. 108. 

 Jilgosoma scabricoi'ue, Serv. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. i. 163. 



Mulsant, Col. de France, i. 24. 

 Hab. Europe. 



2. iEcosoMA siNicuM, n. s. B.M. 



Mg. nigro-brunneum, thorace medio postice recto, scutello apice 

 subelongato. 



There is a female of this species in the Museum ; it comes 

 from Shanghai, and differs but little from the corresjionding sex 

 of the ^gosoma scabricorne ; it is of a darker brown ; the pos- 

 terior margin of thorax over the scutellum is straight, and not 

 shghtly notched as in that species ; the scutellum also is more 

 pointed. 



Hab. Shanghai (N. China). From Mr. Fortune's Collection. 



3. .^GOSOMA ORNATICOLLE, n. S. B.M. 



jEg., capite et thorace nigris, venoicis minutis scabriiisculis ; 

 thorace, plagis quatuor pilis aureis tectis ; elytris obscure fer- 

 rugineft-brunneis, sutura (apice spinigera) margineque nigris ; 

 antennarum articulis tertio quarto et quintobasi asperis. 



Head black, covered with small warts, 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 and closely 

 covered with small warts ; the third, fourth and fifth scabrous, 

 the projections more distant from each other than they are on 

 the basal joint; fifth 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 posteiior margin somewhat more distant from 

 each other than the two fore ones ; these hairs are all more or 

 less directed to\^•ards the centre of the spot. Elytra smooth, dull 

 ferruginous bro\vn, the sutui'e and margins black, the suture at 

 the apex spined. 



Length 25 lines. 

 Hab. E. Indies. 



