244 CERAMBYCID.T*:. 



the suture has a somewhat depressed palish yellow spot; be- 

 tween which and the tip there is another elongated, more de- 

 pressed, palish spot, which is fenestrated in the middle. Legs 

 slightly clavate, pitchy. 

 Hab. N. China (Coll. R. Fortune). 



163. MEROSTENUS, n. g. 



Head somewhat depressed, short before the eyes. Eyes pro- 

 jecting, wider than the thorax. Antennae as long as the body, 

 third joint not so long as the fourth, fifth and the following joints 

 longer than the fourth. Thorax somewhat narrow, longer than 

 wide. Elytra elongated, flattened, at the apex produced. Legs 

 with the femora slightly clavate, of two hind legs compressed. 



1. Merostenus productus, n. s. PI. VIII. f. 3. B.M. 



M. pallido-testaceus, punctatissimus, thoracis dorso carinulis 

 tribus abbreviatis ; elytris apice subobtuse productis. 

 Long. lin. 4£. 



Of a pale testaceous colour, very thickly punctured, back of 

 thorax with three abbreviated cannulas ; elytra at the tip some-> 

 what bluntly produced. 

 Hah. Jamaica (Coll. Gosse). 



164. CERESIUM, 



Ceresium, Newman, Entom. p. 322. 

 Obrium et Callidium, p., Newman (olim). 



1. Ceresium immite. B.M. 



C. testaceum; prothorace fere cylindraceo, capite fere duplo 

 longiore, subtiliter punctato, tuberculis nonnullis glabris in- 

 structo ; elytris punctatis, apice rotundatis. 



Obrium immite, Newman, Entom. p. 247- 

 Ceresium immite, Newman, Entom. p. 322. 

 Hab. Philippine Islands (Coll. Cuming). 



2. Ceresium ^Ethiops. B.M. 



C. nigrum, nitidum ; antennis articulis 5 apicalibus cinereis, 

 lanuginosis ; capite, thorace elytrisque profunde punctatis, 

 fascia lanuginosa pone elytrorum medium. 



