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MR. F. P. PASCOE ON THE CtntCTJLIONID^. 



primo brevi, secundo longiusculo, cseteris brevibus, gradatim 

 latioribus ; clava subglobosa, spongiosa. J?roihorax elongatus, 

 apice capite haud latior, antiee angustior, basi rotundatus. 

 Scutellum parvum. Elytra prothorace latiora, latitudine plus 

 duplo longiora. Pedes mediocres ; femora paulo incrassata ; 

 tibiae compressse, apice parum arcuatae, bicalcaratse ; tarsi 

 breves, articulo penultimo mimisculo ; unguiculi liberi, tenues, 

 divergentes. Coxae anticse sejunctse. Abdomen normale. 



This genus is evidently an ally of the preceding, although very 

 distinct. The species described below has a pale yellowish-clayey 

 surface, smooth, with the appearance of being varnished. 



Ithaura strangulata. (PI. VI. fig. 2.) I. oblonga, depre ssa, in- 

 dumenta polito lutoso-silaceo omnino tecta ; rostro quam prothorace 

 breviore, supra vage subtiliter punctulato ; antennis griseo-pubescenti- 

 bus, parce setosulis ; prothorace quam latitudine sesquilongiore, remote 

 subtiliter punctulato, lateraliter vitta obscure fusca angusta notato ; 

 elytris subseriatim fortiter impresso-punctatis, basi interstitiis tribus 

 paulo elevatis. Long. 4 lin. 



Hab. Columbia. 



Protocerius fervidus. P. elongato-ellipticus, supra laete fulvo- 

 brunneus, capite scutelloque saturatioribus, infra pedibusque atris, 

 nitidis ; antennis nigris ; prothorace oblongo, antice tubulato, basi 

 rotundato, supra glabro, impunctato ; scutello elongato-triangulari ; 

 elytris prothorace paulo latioribus, postice angustioribus, apice ob- 

 tuso-rotundatis, singulis striis quinque angustis, duabus extimis ab- 

 breviatis lineisque duabus punctatis ad latera insculptis, apice angusto- 

 nigro marginatis ; pygidio conico, obscure fulvo-brunneo. Long. 

 15-19 lin. 



Hab. Kumaon. 



A narrower species than P. colossus, without any granulation 

 on the prothorax, and of a bright yellow cinnamon-brown colour. 

 P. molossus, 01., is a good and perfectly distinct species, the ori- 

 ginal of which was supposed by M. Guerin Meneville to have been 

 a female colossus, to which the head of a male had been attached. 

 I have it from Celebes and Malacca. 



