74 Longicornia Malayana. 



tures, median line confined to the vertex ; epistoine and lip 

 closely covered with long brownish hairs ; mandibles black ; pro- 

 thorax pale fawn, with a brown patch on each side at the base, 

 granules small and scattered ; scutellum rounded behind ; elytra 

 with a very dark brown triangular patch on each side near the 

 base, followed by a broad oblique band, fawn-coloured at the 

 suture and side, but between nearly white, then a dark brown 

 small oblique patch, and towards the apex a round dark spot ; 

 body beneath covered by a compact greyish-yellow pubescence ; 

 legs and antennaj brownish, spotted with grey. 

 Length 10 lines. 



Axiothea invida. 



A. niurina vel nigra ; elytris plaga laterali mediana alba. 



JIab. — Batch ian. 



Greyish-brown, or (in one specimen) nearly entirely dull black; 

 head with scattered punctures in front, the median line confined 

 to the vertex ; lip dark brown ; mandibles black ; prothorax 

 more transverse, very irregular, a slightly raised cruciform pro- 

 tuberance in the middle, granules few and scattered ; scutellum 

 rather pointed behind ; elytra covered with prominent scattered 

 glossy black granules, the basal ridges less marked, except the 

 innermost, which is raised into a very decided crest, about the 

 middle and at the side a very distinct white patch ; body beneath 

 reddish-chesnut, with a thin greyish pile ; legs and antennae 

 brown, spotted with grey. 



Length 6 lines. 



SoTADES. 



Caput antice subtransversum, tuberibus antenniferis validis, basi 

 vix approximatis. Ociili parvi, in partes duas tequales fere 

 divisi. Antenncc maribus corpore longiores, feminis aequales, 

 validae, sublineares, ciliatce, dense pubescentes; scapo pyri- 

 formi, articulo tertio scapo duplo longiore, quarto et cseteris 

 brevioribus, ultimo apice maribus curvato. IMandibulce ro- 

 bustac. Protltorax rugosus, latitudine et longitiidine aequalis 

 vel transversus, antice angustior, capite latior, elytris paulo 

 latior. Elytra oblonga, lateribus fere parallela, apice sub- 

 intcgra, vel spina suturali. Pro- et mesosterna elevata, rotun- 

 data. Coxcc anticcTC maribus breviter spinosce. Pedes robusti, 

 antici elongati ; t'lh'uc curvatic, pritsertini anticit; ; tarsi lali. 

 Abdominis segmenlis subyequalibus, ultimo truncato. 



