PRAONETHA MOENSII. 15 



NOTE VI. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF THE 

 LONCIICORN GENUS PRAONETHA, PASC. 



C. RITSEMA Cg. 



Praonetha Moensii , sp. n. 



This new species belongs to Pascoe's § 1 «Elytra scar- 

 cely (or not at all) crested, the apex rounded,"^) and is 

 closely allied to P. subtincta Pasc. (^. c. p. 170) from Java 

 and P. Boivringu Pasc. (/. c. foot-note) from Hong Kong , 

 but may easily be distinguished from the first species by 

 the absence of the angular emargination of the anterior 

 border of the prothorax, and from the second by the ab- 

 sence of the small black tufts on the raised lines of the 

 elytra, etc. 



Length 12 mm. — Reddish brown, covered with a red 

 pile on the head (on the labrum however the pubescence 

 is of an ashy color) , thorax , base and apical third of the 

 elytra , legs (except the dark tarsi) and under surface of the 

 body except the apical segment of the abdomen which is 

 naked but for a few dispersed white short hairs; a very 

 broad band of a greyish pubescence across the middle of 

 the elytra showing on each elytron a large triangular la- 



1) F. Pascoe, Lotigicornia Malayana. p. 164. 



Notes iroxn the Ueyden 31useuxn, Vol. III. 



