336 CERAMBYCID.E. 



face with brown punctures and a longitudinal brown impressed 

 line down the middle extending to vertex ; a widish brown band 

 behind each eye. Thorax with the sides above transversely stri- 

 gose and punctured; space down the middle depressed and 

 covered with short close yellowish- white hairs ; a smooth raised 

 brown line down the middle ; a transverse impressed line near 

 the hinder margin. Scutellum covered with short pale hairs. 

 Elytra punctured, punctures deepest at the base, nearly obsolete 

 towards the tip, powdered here and there with greyish hairs, de- 

 pressed along the suture, and the depressed part with short close 

 greyish hairs ; a slight longitudinal keel on each from the base 

 to the apex, somewhat curved and pointed at the end, where it 

 is blackish ; abdomen below smoothish down the middle, the 

 sides covered with short greyish hairs. 

 Hab. Australia. 



221. TMESISTERNUS. 



Tmesisternus, Latr. R. A. v. 121 (1829). 

 Icthyosomus, Dej. (olim) Cat. Col. 



1. Tmesisternus trivittatus. B.M. 



T. ater, rlavo-tomentosus ; thorace elytrisque punctatis ; elytris 

 fasciis tribus albis transversis, postica obsoleta. 



Tmesisternus trivittatus, Guer. Voy. Coquille, p. 130. t. 7. f. 12. 



Blanch. Voy. Pole Sud, iv. 284. t. 16. f. 15. 

 Tmesisternus bizonulatus, Guer. Icon. Regne Anim. t. 45. f. 7« 



Expl. p. 250. 

 Tmesisternus bicinctus, Dej. Cat. p. 353. 



Boisd. Voy. Astrolabe, ii. p. 473. 

 Hab. New Guinea (Dory). 



2. Tmesisternus bizonatus. 



T. nigrescens; capite medio sulcato, flavido-sericeo ; antennis 

 nigrescentibus ; thorace punctato, pilis cinereis et flavidis 

 variegato ; elytris punctatis, cinereo-sericeis, pilis flavidis paulo 

 variegatis, fasciis duabus angustis, postica mediocriter arcuata, 

 lineaque postica obsoleta flavescentibus. 



Tmesisternus trivittatus, var., Hombr. 8f J acq. Voy. Pole Sud, 



t. 16. f. 16. 

 Tmesisternus bizonatus, Blanch. Voy. Pole Sud, iv. 285. 

 Hab. New Guinea. 



