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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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$OERAMBYCIDJE. This group which under another name, is Lacordaire's group ^araades, includes only two genem-Enn,poda and Neoprion . the latter is regarded by M. Lameere as merely a subgenus. One species only occurs within our faunistic area, the others are found in China, Japan Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo. The group has no close relationship with any of the other groups included in our fauna. * ^ ' Genus NEOPRION. Neopvion, Lacord. Gen. Coleopt. viii, p. 131 (1869) Enrypoda {Smmd^ subgen. Neoprion {Lac), Lameere, Ann. Soc Unt. Belff. xlvni, p. 9 (1904). Type, jxirandrceformis, Lacord. Bange. Andaman Is. and Malay Peninsula. Dorso-ventrally compressed. Head with the clypeus thickened at its lower margin, triangularly depressed behind, limited above by two oblique lines, from the junction of which a rather deep impressed line or groove passes backwards on to the vertex; man- dibles shorter than the head, stout, nearly horizontal, incurved and sharply pointed at the apex, carinate above, armed with a tooth on inner edge; eyes emarginate; anteunal supports flattened, on a level with the thickened front border of the clypeus. Antennae reach to a little beyond the middle of the elytra in the c?, not so far as to the middle in the $; first joint stout and very short; third more than three times as long as the first, and a little longer than the fourth and fifth united; fourth to eleventh subequal in length, each with tvi'o narrow elongate poriferous- fossse on the anterior side, similar but much shorter foss£8 being present near the apex of the third. Pronotum of the d as broad as the elytra, with its sides nearly parallel from the slightly pro- jecting front angles up to the lateral angles placed a little behind the middle, thence converging obliquely to the base; the front margin somewhat bowed backwards in the middle; the base rounded in the middle, sinuate towards the sides ; disk feebly convex, with a large, s])arsely punctate, smooth area, roughly octagonal in shape, over the whole of the central part, the spaces between this and the lateral edges are very finely and closely punctate and opaque ; pronotum of $ with its sides somewhat convergent in front from the prominent lateral angles, strongly punctured near the sides. Elytra somewhat flattened above, broadly rounded at the apex, the sides narrow, nearly vertical, with an obtuse costa running between each and the disk. Epi- sterna of metathorax nearly parallel-sided, narrowed a little near the apex, which is straightly truncate. Legs rather short; femora flattened fusiform ; the hind pair extended but little beyond the second abdominal segment; tarsi relatively short, with the first joint scarcely longer than the second.$