COLEOPTEROUS INSECTS. 
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usually somewhat shining, and the whole surface is 
thickly punctured : there are three remote bands of 
black composed of soft hairs, and having the ap- 
pearance of velvet, the hairs of the anterior band 
longer than in the others, and frequently forming 
a considerable tuft towards the suture. The un- 
der side of the body and the lower half of the thighs 
are closely covered with depressed hairs of a deep 
and beautiful red ; the other parts of the leg are 
steel-blue, glossed with green above. An exten- 
sive series of specimens have lately been procured 
from Java. 
Of the last tribe of the long-horned beetles, 
termed LEPTURiDiE, the example figured is named 
DESMOCERUS CYANEUS. 
PLATE XXVI. Fig. 3. 
Stenocorus cyaneus, Fabr. — Olivier , iv. No. 69, pi. 3, fig. 26. 
It is of a dark-blue colour, somewhat shining, 
roughly punctured and pubescent. The head has 
a longitudinal groove, and there is a similar im- 
pression down the centre of the thorax ; the latter 
is in the shape of a truncated cone, with the hin- 
der angles very acute, and almost forming a spine. 
The anterior half of the elytra is yellow, the other 
dark blue, with violet reflections. The under parts 
of the body, and the legs, are dark blue. It is said 
to inhabit India and other eastern countries of Asia. 
