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perhaps in habit and colour it is most suggestive of some species of 

 Phryneta (e. g. P. cceca) ; but its cicatricose antennas will not per- 

 mit it to be placed near that genus. For the present I should be 

 inclined to put it after the African genera Imalmus and Hayesata. 



Metopides occipitalis. (PL XXVII. fig. 5.) 

 M. fuscus, pube densissima cervina teetus, vertice nigra siynata. 

 Dark brown, covered with a very close fawn-coloured pubescence ; 

 head rugosely punctured in front, no median line, the vertex velvet- 

 black, bordered at the sides and spotted in the middle with ochra- 

 ceous ; prothorax deeply punctured, the intervals irregularly convex, 

 sulcated behind, a black line at the apex and a black spot at the base; 

 scutelluin subscutiform, black in the middle ; elytra finely and irre- 

 gularly punctured, with a few small granules at the base, two black 

 spots on each side the scutellum, and an irregular mass of spots be- 

 hind the middle mixed with a few white specks ; body beneath, legs, 

 scape, and second joint of the antennae densely pubescent, somewhat 

 darker than the elytra, &c, with larger snowy-white setulose hairs 

 scattered over them, rest of the antennae with a thin greyish pubes- 

 cence. Length 11 lines. 



Epepeotes. 



Antennae yraciles, art. tertio scapo duplo vel triplo lonyiore. 



Pedes antici elongati ; protibiae curvatcc. 



Mesosternum elevatum, production. 



Head exserted, subtransverse in front ; antennary tubers robust, 

 approximate at the base ; eyes large. Antennae very long in the 

 males, the scape not produced at the apex, the third joint two or 

 three times as long as the scape, the following shorter and more 

 or less equal, the last sometimes the longest of all. Prothorax trans- 

 verse, the propectus produced. Fore legs elongate, the tibiae curved, 

 not toothed, their tarsi with the basal joint spined externally in the 

 males. Mesosternum elevated, produced or keeled in front. 



Separated from Monochamus for the reception of those species 

 which differ chiefly in a strongly produced mesosternum, the other 

 characters being mostly those of that genus as it is here restricted. 

 The type is Lamia lusca, Fab. 



Epepeotes luscus. 



Lamia lusca, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. t. i. pt. 11. p. 283. 

 Besides Siam, Malacca, and Borneo, this well-known specie3 ex- 

 tends through Sumatra and Java to Timor. 



Blepeph.eus. 



Antennae subincrassatce, art. tertio qiiam scapus vix lonyiore! 



art. ult. prcec. fere cequali. 

 Propectus abbreviation. 

 Pedes antici cceteris hand lonyiores. 

 Mesosternum elevatum, dentatum. 



Proc. Zool. Soc— 1866, No. XVII. 



