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usually somewhat shining, and the whole surface is 

 '"lickly punctured : there are three remote bands of 

 black composed of soft hairs, and having the . ap- 

 pearance of velvet, the hairs of the anterior band 

 longer than in the others, and frequently forming 

 a considerable tuft towards the suture. The un- 

 der side of the body and the lower half of the thighs 

 are closely covered with depressed hairs of a deep 

 and beautiful red ; the other parts of the leg are 

 steel-blue, glossed with green above. An exten- 

 sive series of specimens have lately been procured 

 from Java. 



Of the last tribe of the long-horned beetles, 

 termed LEPTURID^E, the example figured is named 



DESMOCEKUS CYANEUS. 



PLATE XXVI. FIG. 3. 

 Stenocorus cyaneus, Fair. Olivier, iv. No. 69, pi. 3, fig. 26. 



It is of a dark-blue colour, somewhat shining, 

 roughly punctured and pubescent. The head has 

 a longitudinal groove, and there is a similar im- 

 pression down the centre of the thorax ; the latter 

 is in the shape of a truncated cone, with the hin- 

 der angles very acute, and almost forming a spine. 

 The anterior half of the elytra is yellow, the other 

 dark blue, with violet reflections. The under parts 

 of the body, and the legs, are dark blue. It is said 

 to inhabit India and other eastern countries of Asia, 



