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are yellowish- white. Furnished with some long, rather sparsely 

 scattered sub-erect setae. Upper part of the head, the prothorax 

 and the scape of the antennae minutely and very closely pun- 

 ctured, with the punctures on the middle of the pronotum running 

 together in a longitudinal direction and imparting to the disk 

 a slightly rugose appearance. Elytra with strong, somewhat 

 transversely elongated, punctures arranged in four rows on each. 

 The inner-most row is close to the suturai edge, and is made 

 up of smaller punctures than those of the other rows ; the second 

 runs along the middle of the dorsal part of the elytron and 

 has on its inner side, near the base, a feebly raised line; the 

 third and most distinct row sets out from the basal depression 

 just above the shoulder, and, along its inner border, has a clearly 

 marked raised line; the fourth row runs back from the humei-al 

 prominence, and its punctures are slightly distant from one 

 another. The raised lines and the large punctures do not extend 

 on to the posterior sixth of the elytra; but this part, and the 

 interstices over the remainder of the elytra are vei-y minutely 

 and closely punctulate, and covered by a very faint dark-brown 

 or blackish pubescence. The apices of the elytra are rounded. 

 The legs, except at the base, are blackish, sub-nitid and sparsely 

 setose. The antennae ( 9 ?) are nearly twice as long as the body, 

 they are covered with a very short pubescence, and the joints 

 are furnished underneath with some very long close-lying hairs; 

 the third joint is about equal in length to the fourth. 



Though readily distinguishable from Nericonia Irifasciata, Pasc. 

 the above species agrees with it very well in structural characters. 

 The two species placed by Pascoe in Melegena differ by no very 

 strongly marked characters, but may be distinguished by the 

 emarginated and toothed (or spinose) apices of the elytra; and 

 their somewhat less strongly davate femora. In all of there as 

 in the other members of the group Disteniides there is an oblique 

 groove or notch on the tibiae of the middle pair; and there is 

 also an oblique, though less distinct, groove on the ventral side 

 of the tibiae of the anterior pair similar to that which is so 

 characteristic of the Longicorns of the subtamilv I.amiidae. 



