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of elytra obliquely truncated. Antennae rufous, joints black 

 at the tip ; third and fifth joints equal in length, fourth only 

 half the length of preceding. Legs violet-red, tarsi clothed with 

 silvery-white hairs ; metathorax and abdomen on each side with 

 a band of white hairs placed closely. 



Hab. New Hebrides (Aneiteum) ; Voyage of H.M.S. Herald 

 (Mr. J. MacGillivray). 



225. ENICODES. 



Enicodes, G. R. Gray, Griff. A. K. Ins. ii. 117 (1832). 

 Cerambyx, p., Schreiber. 



1. Enicodes Fichtelii. B.M. 



Cerambyx Fichtelii, Schreiber, Linn. Trans, vi. 200. t. 21. f. 8 & . 

 Enicodes Fichtelii, G. R. Gray, Griff. A. K. Ins. ii. . pi. 65. 

 i.\S. 



Westw. Arc. Ent. i. pi. 15. f. 4 $ . 

 Hab. Australia. 



2. Enicodes Comitessa, n. s. PL VIII. f. 4. B. M 



E. angustus, metallicus, capite thoraceque viridibus ; thoracis 

 dorso transversim multistrigoso, lateribus singulis vitta brevi 

 pilosa flavida ; elytris violaceo-purpureis, medio singulis lon- 

 gitudinaliter elevatis, apice subabrupte acuminatis, lateribus 

 vitta humerali flavo-pilosa, macula ante medium, vittaque 

 postica flavo-pilosis. 

 Long. lin. 4|. 



Head metallic-green with greyish hairs on the cheeks, widely 

 cleft between the antennas, with an impressed line down the 

 middle of the head, deepest on the crown ; antennae with the tip 

 of first joint punctured. Thorax somewhat elongated and con- 

 vex above, deep green, with many transverse striae on the back, 

 and with a transverse impressed line near the hind margin, 

 giving the thorax a strangulated appearance ; side with a wide 

 vitta covered with close yellowish hairs, not so thickly placed in 

 front and behind ; scutellum covered with short greyish hairs. 

 Elytra deep violet-purple, each down the middle longitudinally 

 raised, grooved down the suture and the lateral margin ; the tip 

 somewhat abruptly acuminate on the side of the suture, which 

 is greenish and has short grey hairs on each side ; the sides with 

 a short humeral vitta, slightly covered with yellowish-grey hairs ; 

 a spot before the middle densely covered with hairs, and behind 

 the spot, but separated from it, another vitta almost reaching to 



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