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The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by C.T. Bingham. Coleoptera. Vol.I. (Cerambycidae) / by C.J. Gahan. [Vol.II]. Chrysomelidae. Vol.I / by Martin Jacoby.

Date:: 1906-1908

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Credit: The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by C.T. Bingham. Coleoptera. Vol.I. (Cerambycidae) / by C.J. Gahan. [Vol.II]. Chrysomelidae. Vol.I / by Martin Jacoby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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$feebly dentate at the suture. Third joint of the tarsi more or less deeply bilobed, tlie lobes rounded at the end. Other characters iilmost as in Lophosternus. $ . Antenna; shorter than the body, more slender than in the 6, and not denticulate underneath. Legs smooth. Abdomen rounded at the apex, 13. Paraphrus granulosus, Thoms. (Cyrtognathus) Esmi Class. Ceramb. p. 329 (1861). 6. Brick-red in colour, the head and antenna? sometimes inclining to dark brown; prothorax and elyti-a almost entirely opaque. Head nitid and very sparsely jDunctured in front; upper- side rugosely punctate and opaque. Antennae : the first five or six joints more or less nitid above, somewhat asperate under- neath ; the first three or four sparsely punctate and the last six or seven densely rugulose-punctate and opaque. Pronotum finely and very closely punctured over its whole area. Elytra somewhat rugulose, closely and very finely punctulate. Hind breast pubescent. Last ventral segment with an arcuate emargi- nation at the apex. Front and middle legs asperate underneath. Third joint of tarsi with its cleft extending three-fourths of the way to the base, and its lobes obtusely rounded at the end. Variation. In some small males the pronotum has two nitid or sub-nitid spaces near the middle and another, transverse, at the base, these spaces being much more finely and less closely punc- tured than the rest of the surface. $. Eorm and colour of c?. xintennse shorter than the body, more slender than in the male, and not denticulate or scabrous underneath. Legs smooth. Last ventral segment rounded at apex. Hind breast less densely pubescent. Le^igth d 2 33-65 ; breadth 11-25 mm. Hah. Mungphu in Sikhim {Atlcimon Coll.); Burma : Thayetmyo, Moulmein, N, Chin Hills {Watson), Thaungyin Valley {Bingham), Kakhien Hills (B. L. Stanton); Siam. Genus PRIONUS. Prionus, Geoffroy, Hist. Ins. de Paris, i, p. 198 (1762). Type, P. coriarius, Linn. European. Bange. Europe, Western and Northern Asia, Japan, and North America. c?. Head short, transverse, more or less concave in front; mandibles stout, rather short, vertical, abruptly incurved and acute at the tip, with or without a tooth on the inner edge; palpi moderately long, the labial somewhat shorter than the maxillary. Eyes rather large, reniform. Antennae at least three-fourths the length of the body, with twelve or more joints ; first joint rather short, third the longest: the joints from the third or fourth to the$