450 



paussid.i;. 



Genus CERAPTERUS. 



Cerapterus } Swederus, Kongl. Vet. Akad. Handl. ix, 1788, p. 203 ; 



Westwood, Arcan. Ent. ii, 1845, p. 6 ; RafFray, Nouv. Arch, Mus. 



Paris, (2) viii, 1885, p. 336. 

 Orthopterus, Westwood (subgenus), Ent. Mag. v, 1838, p. 502. 

 Euthysoma, Thomson, Mus. Scient. ii, 1860, p. 68. 



Form short, broad, convex, and thick-set ; head small, short, 

 transverse, with a short neck ; eyes large and prominent ; antennae 

 10-jointed, with the first joint subquadrate, much narrower than 

 the following, which are very broad and compressed, 2-9 very 

 narrow, subequal, 10 much longer (as long as the three preceding), 

 rounded at the apex ; maxillae bilobed, maxillary palpi with four 

 joints, the first shorter than the second, the third half as long as 

 the second, and the fourth almost as long as the three preceding, 

 narrowed at the apex ; labial palpi very stout, three-jointed, the 

 first joint very small, the second much larger, enlarged in front, 

 and the third very large, cup-shaped, and with its apex excavate ; 

 pronotum short, very transverse, with the sides rounded ; legs 

 short, with the femora and tibiae very broad, the latter very 

 strongly compressed ; tarsi short, partly fitting into grooves on 

 the tibiae, the first four joints very short, in the female hardly 

 broader than the fifth, in the male strongly dilated transversely 

 and thickly pilose on their underside. 



\- Range. The genus is mainly African; one species, however, 

 occurs in Java and one in India. 



218. Cerapterus latipes, Swed. 



Cerapterus latipes, Swederus, Kongl. Vet, Akad. Handl. ix, 1788, 

 p. 203, pi. 6, fig. 1 : Westwood, Arcan. Ent. ii, 1845 ; p. 6, pi. 49. 

 fig. 1. 



Short and broad, oblong, convex, pitchy, shining, with the 

 front parts pitchy red or dark ferru- 

 ginous ; head small and short, with 

 large eyes, which do not however take 

 up the whole of the sides as the temples 

 are narrowly visible behind them, ver- 

 tex rather strongly punctured ; antennae 

 red ; pronotum with the sides and angles 

 rounded, smooth and shining, feebly 

 channelled in the middle, finely setose 

 at the sides ; elytra as broad as the 

 pronotum, parallel-sided, very finely 

 sculptured, dark, with an irregular 

 Cerapterus latipes. yellowish dentate spot on each before 

 the apex, which does not touch the 

 suture or the margins ; pygidium scarcely visibly punctured ; legs 

 red, femora and tibiae strongly punctured on their underside ; 

 -nderside pitchy or pitchy red. 



