42 Mr. H. T. Stainton on the Study of Entomology. 



is doing to completion or not ; if he leaves his work unfinished, 

 others will rise up after him and resume the thread of his labours 

 and carry the good work onward ; but whilst we contend that 

 there is no room for faint-heartedness in considering the shortness 

 and uncertainty of life, we must not forget to draw from it the 

 wholesome lesson of doing at once what we have in our power to 

 do, and not delaying and postponing this or that investigation for 

 " a more convenient season" that may never come. 



IV, Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Asiatic 



Longicorn Coleoptera. By F. P. Pascoe, Esq., F.L.S., 



&c. 



[Read 3rd March, 1856.] 



The collections of insects recently sent to this country by Mr. 

 Wallace from Malacca and Borneo are especially rich in the longi- 

 corn Coleoptera, the greater part being new to Entomologists. 

 The more remarkable I now bring to the notice of the Society, 

 and to these I have added a few others yet undescribed collected 

 by Mr. Fortune in North China. 



Blemmya. 



Maxillary palpi shorter than the labial, with the terminal joints 

 in both rounded ; mandibles produced ; antennae short, with the 

 basal joint thick and longer than the third, the sixth to the 

 eleventh widely dilated on one side ; thorax unarmed, rounded, 

 wider behind ; elytra depressed ; legs short, robust. 



A remarkable genus, whose nearest affinity appears to be with 

 Mallosoma. 



Blemmya Whitel (PI. XVI. fig. 6.) 



B. atra ; scutello albo ; elytris atris, carinatis, fascid angusta 

 alba, in singulis interrupta. Borneo. 



Black, thickly and roughly punctured, a fringe of white 

 appressed hairs on the posterior margin of the prothorax, but in- 

 terrupted as they approach the scutellum, and not continuous be- 



