the Coleopterous Family Cerambycidse. 313 



mark composed of densely packed hairs on each side ; scutellum 

 also covered with white hairs ; elytra finely and closely punc- 

 tured throughout, and clothed with scattered stiffish hairs, a 

 broad and very distinct pale-yellow stripe on each side of the su- 

 ture from the base to the apex, but not extending to rtie ex- 

 treme of either, nor meeting at the suture ; body beneath black, 

 with a whitish tomentum, thicker and forming a large patch on 

 each side of the three basal abdominal segments ; femora glossy 

 black, with long whitish hairs increasing in density on the tibise 

 and tarsi -, antennse with a whitish pubescence. Length 5 J lines. 



Nyphasia. 



Pr other ax irregularis, lateraliter inermis. 

 Femora petiolato-clavata, apicibus constrictis. 

 Processus interfemoralis latus, antice rotundatus. 



Head exserted, very short in front, the clypeus separated by 

 a deep groove below the antennary tubercles, the latter very 

 large and protuberant. Antennse about as long as the body; 

 the scape pyriform ; the third to the sixth joint spinous at the 

 apex, the fourth shorter than the third or fifth. Pro thorax 

 rather longer than broad; the disk and sides irregular, the latter 

 unarmed. Scutellum narrowly triangular. Elytra gradually 

 narrowing from the base to the apex, the latter mucronate. 

 Legs rather long; femora petiolate-clavate, their apices con- 

 stricted; tibise slender; tarsi gradually increasing in length 

 from the anterior pair. Pro- and mesosterna depressed. Pos- 

 terior coxye not approximate. Interfemoral process broad, and 

 rounded in front, not extending beyond the coxae. 



Although unlike Cordylomera in general appearance, I have 

 been unable to find any reliable character to separate it except 

 that of the interfemoral process, which in that genus is very 

 narrow and pointed, and consequently the posterior coxae are 

 approximate and, it may be added, more than usually exserted. 

 There is no appearance of pubescence on the specimen described 

 below, which has evidently been in spirits, and it may therefore 

 have been obliterated. 



Nyphasia torrida. 



N. rufo-fulvescens ; antennis art. tertio ad sextum nigris ; scutello 

 genibusque fuscis. 



Hab. Ceylon. 



Reddish fulvescent, opake; third to the sixth joints of the 

 antennse black, tips of the remainder, except the last two, 

 blackish ; scutellum and tips of the femora, with the bases of 

 the tibise, brownish ; head and prothorax closely and finely punc- 

 tured, the latter with a transverse depression anteriorly and a 



