70 Longicornia Malayana. 



longitudinal line very narrow; scutellum transverse; elytra 

 remotely punctured, the punctures varying in size and very irre- 

 gular, behind the middle two dark brown flexuous and ill-defined 

 bands, at the sides, behind the shoulders, two brownish patches ; 

 body beneath greyish-brown, with pale silky hairs ; legs covered 

 with a mixed grey and brownish pile ; antennae brownish, with 

 small spots of grey. 

 Length 7 lines. 



ESCHARODES. 



Caput mediocre, antice transversum, tuberibus antenniferis validis. 

 Ocidi parvi, profunde emarginati. Antennce corpore longiores, 

 validae, setacese, maculis pubescentibus vestitse, vix ciliatse ; 

 scapo brevi, suhclavato, articulis tertio quartoque magis 

 longioribus, ceeteris subaequalibus, ultimo apice curvato. 

 Prothorax capite mnlto latior, longitudine latitudini aequalis, 

 utrinque tumidns, carina longitudinali medio instructus, 

 lateribus antice bidentatus. Elytra irregularia, granulifera, 

 basi latiora, lateribus sensim decrescentia, apice truncata. 

 Prostcrnum postice dentatum. Mesosternum parvum, elevato- 

 dentatum, postice bifidum. Coxteanticae maribus spina brevi 

 recurva. Pedes validi, antici maribus subelongali ; protibice 

 rectae; tarsi breves, articulo penultirao latiori. 



The strongly marked mesial ridge on the prothorax will 

 distinguish this genus from Axiothea (post, p. 72), to which it is 

 nearly allied, but from which it also differs in the form of its pro- 

 thorax, elytra, protibige, and the presence of spines on the anterior 

 coxoD of the males. I have been very much puzzled with the first 

 two species. No two congeneric forms can apparently be more 

 distinct, but then intervening forms occur, which, with the excep- 

 tion of the mesial ridge (and not always then), offer scarcely any 

 definite characters. Even the tooth on the anterior femora is absent 

 in one specimen which there can be no hesitation in placing with 

 E. carinkollis ; and there are others where the description given 

 for that species has only a partial application, varying more or less 

 in each : these remarks are purposely confined to the males. 

 Nevertheless (and sul)ject to this explanation) I think it will be 

 better to furnish the two forms with distinctive appellations. They 

 appear to be very comrnon where they occur, and the two will 

 doubtless be found very difficult to separate. 'J'he colour varies 

 from grey to pale ashy, which is more or less extended at the ex- 

 pense of the brown, and this sometimes, at least in E. carinkollis, 



