202 CERAMBYCID.E. 



1. Erythroplatys corallifer, n. s. PI. V. f. 2. B.M. 



E. ruber ; antennis nigris, elytris rude punctatis, nigris, miniaceo 

 notatis, postice latioribus. 

 Long. lin. 7i- 



Head red, with two obscure transverse black spots on the ver- 

 tex, covered with punctures and short impressed lines ; antennae 

 black, the seven apical joints covered with a greyish silky pu- 

 bescence. Thorax as wide as long, punctured, with a smooth 

 longitudinal somewhat raised line down the middle, a transverse 

 depressed line across the hind margin, at each end terminating 

 in a deep point : scutellum black, with short silky pubescence 

 impressed in the middle. Elytra coarsely punctured, dilated 

 from the middle to the end ; black, each with four large coral- 

 red irregular marks ; suture at the base, then again behind the 

 middle, and at the end, with the apex of elytra and a marginal 

 line near the shoulder, red : the spots on the elytra are irregular, 

 the basal one is triangular, the next is conjugate, almost forming 

 a suboblique band across, the third is beyond the middle and 

 close to the margin of elytron, and connected with a slight red 

 line with a small spot behind it nearer the suture ; under side of 

 body and legs red. 

 Hab. Amazon (Santarem) (Coll. W. B. Bates). 



125. TROPIS. 



Tropis, Newman, Entom. p. 34. 

 Rhagiomorpha, p., Newman (olim). 

 iEgorhinus, Dej. Cat. p. 360 (not Erichs.). 



1. Tropis oculifera. B.M. 



T. capite exserto linea longitudinali impresso ; prothorace 

 lateribus lanugine aurea vestito ; elytris quasi reticulatis, 

 quadricarinatis, carina prima macula rotunda lanuginosa aurea ; 

 inter primam et secundam linea aurea lanuginosa basali. 



Rhagiomorpha oculifera, Newman, Ann. Nat. Hist. v. 21. 

 Tropis oculifera, Newman, Entom. p. 34. 

 Hab. Van Diemen's Land. 



2. Tropis dimidiata. B.M. 



T. capite nigro, glabro ; thorace flavo, glaberrimo, nitidissimo ; 

 elytris basi flavis, apice nigris, splendore chalybeo nitentibus, 

 parallelis, quasi reticulatis, basi fere glabris, singulo quadri- 



