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neath ; elytra with a prominent carina on each commencing at the 

 basal angle and indistinctly terminating near the apex ; rather below 

 the middle a narrow band formed of white hairs, interrupted at the 

 carina, and scarcely confluent at the suture ; beneath black ; the 

 posterior margins of the episternum and margin of the first abdo- 

 minal segment each furnished with a fringe of white hairs. 

 Length 7g lines. 



Blemmya hifasc'iata, 

 B. atra; scutello concolore ; elytris atris, fasciis angustis 



duabus albis. Borneo. 

 Size of the last ; black, very closely punctured, fringe of white 

 hairs at the posterior margin of the prothorax, continuous, two 

 white hairy fascise dividing the elytra into three equal parts ; under 

 surface as in B, TVhitei, but tomentose, with four abdominal seg- 

 ments margined with white. There is only a faint trace of the 

 carina in this species. 



Prothema. 



Head rather produced ; palpi equal, subfiliform ; antennae long, 

 with the sixth to the tenth joints dilated on one side towards the 

 end ; thorax rounded, wider behind ; elytra rather short, de- 

 pressed ; scutellum minute ; four anterior legs moderate ; pos- 

 terior lengthened, with their tarsi compressed. 



This genus, like the last, appears to be allied to Mallosoma. 



Prothema signata. (PI. XVI. fig. 5.) 

 P. atra, scabra, corpore subtus hirto ; elytris singulis maculis 

 duabus pilosis ochraceis, una scutellare curvata, altera pone 

 mediam transversa lunulata. China Borealis. 

 Black, with the head, thorax and elyt|;a rough from numerous 

 small granulations, a curved line from near the shoulder bordering 

 the scutellum and directed outwards, and a transverse lunulate 

 spot below the middle of each elytron covered with ochraceous 

 hairs ; body beneath tomentose, white, with a diluted saffron yellow 

 tinge on the sides. 

 Length 7 lines. 



Prothema funerea . 

 P. atra, scabra, pilis flavescentibus infra vestita. China 



Borealis. 

 Black, and granulated as in the last, but without any hairy 



