30 prionidjE. 



1. ^Egosoma scabricorne. B.M. 



Cerambvx scabricomis, Scop. Ent. Cam. 54. 

 Prionus scabricomis, Fabr. Syst. El. ii. 258. 



Oliv. CoLiv.t. 11. f. 42 ?. 



Latr. R. A. v. 108. 

 .Egosoina seabricorne, Serv. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. i. 163. 



Mulsant, Col. de France, i. 24. 

 Hab. Europe. 



2. iEGOSOMA sinicum, n. s. B.M. 



iEg. nigro-brunneum, thorace medio postice recto, scutello apice 

 subelongato. 



There is a female of this species in the Museum ; it comes 

 from Shanghai, and differs but little from the corresponding sex 

 of the JEgosoma seabricorne ; it is of a darker brown ; the pos- 

 terior margin of thorax over the scutellum is straight, and not 

 slightly notched as in that species ; the scutellum also is more 

 pointed. 



Hab. Shanghai (N. China). From Mr. Fortune's Collection* 



3. jEgosoma ornaticolle, n. s. B.M. 



.Eg. capite et thorace nigris, verrucis minutis scabriusculis ; 

 thorace, plagis quatuor pilis aureis tectis ; elytris obscure fer- 

 rugineo-brunneis, sutura (apice spinigera) margineque nigris ; 

 antennarum articulis tertio quarto et quinto basi asperis. 



Head black, covered with small warts, a smooth line down the 

 middle ending in a small smooth depression in the space between 

 the antennae. Mandibles strongly punctured, tips and inner 

 edge smooth. Antennae with the tjasal joint thickly and closely 

 covered with small warts ; the third, fourth and fifth scabrous, 

 the projections more distant from each other than the} 7 are on 

 the basal joint; fifth and following joints short and smooth. 

 Thorax thickly covered with small warts, with four small spots 

 covered with golden yellow hairs ; two of these spots on the fore- 

 margin, two on the posterior margin somewhat more distant from 

 each other than the two fore ones ; these hairs are all more or 

 less directed towards the centre of the spot. Elytra smooth, dull 

 ferruginous brown, the suture and margins black, the suture at 

 the apex spined. 



Length 25 hues. 

 Hab. E. Indies., 



