Genus Zegriades Pascoe

Zegriades Pascoe, 1869, Trans. Ent. Soc. Land., ser 3, 3 : 525 (type-species : Xoanodera magister Pasc., 1857). - Aurivillius, 1912, Coleopt. Cat., 39 : 62. - Gressitt, 1951c, Longicornia 2 : 146. - Gressitt & Rondon, 1970, Pac. Ins. Monogr, 24: 87.

Diagnostic characters : head exserted; neck elongated behind eye; frons subvertical; upper eye lobe approximate, separated by a weak oblong depression; antennae very much longer than body in both sexes; scape with a cicatrix at apex, carinate dorsally; segment 3 very long, apex nodose, 3 X as long as scape; 4 & 5 dilated at apex; 6 - 11 slender, filiform, slightly compressed; prothorax 1.5 X as long as broad, transversely corrugate; elytra elongated, apex truncate; posterior end of fore intercoxal process truncate, vertical.

Zegriades magister (PASCOE)

Head pitchy brown, entirely covered with tawny pubescence except a triangular glabrous patch on vertex extended from the median groove between upper eye lobe; antennae black; side of prothorax with 3 longitudinal stripes of fulvo­luteous stripes; prosternum clothed with fulvo-luteous pubescence; elytra shinny fusco-castaneous with many oblong patches of luteous pubescence arranged in a longitudinal but interrupted manner; undersurfaces dark fuscous with dense luteous pubescence.

Head exerted, oblique; mandible incised laterally; frons with deep fovea side of middle joined by a weak A-shaped sulcus; gula flat, slightly hollowed out in front and behind of a transverse carina; raised between antennal insertion with a median groove; neck constricted and elongated behind eye. Antenna slender; 3 X as long as body in ; scape not reaching anterior margin of prothorax; apex with a cicatrix; 3 very long, cylindrical, apical tip bulbous; 4 & 5 nodose at apex; 6 - 10 compressed; 11 almost 3 X as long as 10. Prothorax as long as broad; apex narrower than base; transversely and regularly rugose; pronotum with a parallel-sided longitudinal glabrous strip running from apex to base, flanked by 3 pubescent stripes at each side; median of pronotum and latero-ventral side of prothorax impubis. Elytron 6 X as long as broad; glabrous part sparsely punctulate; pubescent stripes and spots as of aggregrated pubescence inside excavated groove; apex truncate with a sharp spine; angular cusp less prominent. Legs : fore femora sublinear; closely carinate at both side in ; mid and hind femora fusiform with the apex acutely narrow; side feebly excavated.

Measurement : Length 32 mm (); 22 mm; ()
 Breadth 7.5 mm (); 6.0 mm ()

Distribution : Sarawak

Material examined : 1 Matang, Kuching Div., 7.IV.1913 (SM Coll.); 1 Mt. Sibau, Balai Ringin Protected Forest, Samarahan Div., VI.1902 (SM Coll.).