176 CERAMBYCIDiE. 



3. COLOBUS VELUTIXUS. 



Colobus velutinus, Saunders, Coll. 

 Hab. Silbet. 



4. Colobus cingalexsis, n. s. B.M. 



C. elytris pedibusque ferrugineis velutinis, abdomine atro, viola- 



ceo-micante, alis palliile ferrugineis apice subumbratis. 

 Hab. Ceylon. From Dr. Hooker's collection. 



There is only a fragment of this distinct species in the Museum 

 collection. 



108. TOMOPTERUS. 



Tomopterus, Serv. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. ii. 544. 



1. Tomopterus Staphylixus. B.M. 



T. thorace antice et postice flavo anguste marginato ; elytris linea 

 obliqua, flava a humero ad apicem currente ; abdomine nigro, 

 segmento primo testaceo ; pedibus subnigris femoribus ferru- 

 gineis. 



Tomopterus Staphylinus, Bup. Serv. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. ii. 545. 

 Hab. Brazil. 



2. Tomopterus pretiosus. 



T. elytris singulis linea obliqua alba, ad suturam fere connexis. 



Tomopterus pretiosus, Newman, Entom. p. 21. 

 Hab. Brazil. 



3. Tomopterus Vespoides, n. s. PL V. f. 8. B.M. 



T. thorace villoso, marginibus anticis posticisque flavo anguste 

 ornatis, ely troram parte laterali dimidiata paliide cmnamomea, 

 abdominis segmentis subtus flavo marginatis; antennis, articulo 

 primo basi rufo. 



Upper parts of a blackish-brown, front of head with golden- 

 coloured hairs, antennae of a blackish-brown with the basal por- 

 tion of first joint rufous. Thorax covered with long black and 

 cinereous hairs, the anterior and posterior margins narrowly or- 

 namented with short yellow hairs ; front margin of metathorax 

 with a line of yellowish bans ; the lateral half of the elytra of a 

 light cinnainon-brown running into yellow on the inner margin, 

 the shoulder and the space about it rather coarsely punctured; 



