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the middle ; but these characters probably vary according to the 

 individual. 



Eburiin^e. 



Ceresium. 



Ceresium, Newman, Entom. p. 322. 



Ceresium raripilum, Newman, I. c. 

 Mr. Newman's type was from Manilla. 



Ceresium vestigiale. 



C. nigrum, subnitidum, pilis sparsis yriseis tectum; prothorace 

 longitudine latitudine fere eequali ; femoribus valde clavatis. 



Black, subnitid, covered with rather long scattered greyish hairs ; 

 head and prothorax finely punctured, the latter about equal in 

 length and breadth, contracted anteriorly, a smooth central longi- 

 tudinal line and two irregular smooth spots on each side ; scutelluni 

 triangular, covered with white hairs ; elytra rather finely punctured, 

 nearly parallel at the sides, the apex rounded ; body beneath and 

 legs glossy black, with a thin greyish pubescence ; antennae about 

 as long as the body, the third and fourth joints shorter than the 

 scape and fifth joint. Length 5 lines. 



A shorter species than the former and unicolorous, the third joint 

 of the antennae much shorter than the scape (as long or longer in 

 C. raripilum), and the femora much more clavate. 



Ceresium zeylanicum, White, Cat. Long. Brit. Mus. p. 246. 



The type is from Ceylon. Mr. Wallace has also taken it at 

 Sarawak. 



Ceresium simplex. 



Stenochorus simplex, Gyllenhall in Schon. Syn. Ins. App. i. 3. 

 p. 178. 



(Emona philippensis, Newman, Entom. p. 247. 



Very generally distributed in the Indian and many Pacific islands, 

 but is wanting in Australia. This species has also been published 

 by M. Blanchard under the ill-judged name of Diatomocephala 

 macula tic ollis. I cannot see that it is generically distinct from Ce- 

 resium. 



Ceresium? versutum. 



C. brunneum, albo pilosum ; capite brevissimo ; prothorace fusco, 

 confertim foveolato ; art. tertio antennurum scapo lonyiore ; 

 pedibus rufo-ferrugineis, nitidis. 



Reddish brown, covered with long scattered loose whitish or yellow- 

 ish-white hairs ; head dark brown, rugosely punctate ; palpi and lip 

 pale ferruginous ; prothorax dark brown, with crowded irregular 

 impressions, the intervals intricately corrugated ; scutelluni rounded 

 behind, brown ; elytra considerably broader than the prothorax, 



