Longicornia Malayana. 11 



becoming smaller and less frequent towards the apex ; body 

 beneath greyish, speckled with brown ; legs brown, speckled with 

 grey ; antennae about as long as the body, brown with grey spots. 

 Lenjrth 12 — 13 lines. 



Si'MPHYLETES. 



Symphyletes, Newman, The Eiitom. i. 362. 

 Caput antice subquadratum, tuberibus antenniferis approximatis 

 vel distantibus. Oculi profunde emarginati. Antennce corpori 

 aequales, vel multo breviores, vel multo longiores, ciliatae vel 

 fere glabrae ; scapo pyriformi vel obconico, articulo tertio scapo 

 duplo vel triplo longiore, quarto caeterisque brevioribus plus 

 minusve decrescentibus, articulo ultimo apice ssepe curvato. 

 Prothorax subtransversus, raro quadratus, aliquando rugosus, 

 dente minuto antice instructo, rarissime obsoleto. Elytra 

 oblonga, generaliter sut)parallela, sequata vel basi cristata, 

 apice integra vel emarginata vel truncata. Pedes modice 

 robusti, coxce anticte maribus aliquando spinosae. Pro- et me- 

 sosterna elevata. 

 It will be seen from the above how difficult it is to formulate, 

 with any degree of precision, the characters of a large longicorn 

 genus. I have thirty-six species now before me, all Australian, 

 except the three described below, each of which is very distinct 

 or even isolated, as is the case with some others which have been 

 referred to the genus. It is, however, to be observed that Syni- 

 phyletes is a very heterogeneous genus, but it would only retain 

 S, nodosus, Newm,, the type, if it were to be divided, and then 

 seven or eight more genera would have to be formed. At the 

 same time Penthea and RItytiphora are scarcely to be distin- 

 guished from Symphyletes as it stands at present. The question 

 is, does this group form only a single genus of highly indi- 

 vidualised species, or is it a collection of many genera? I believe 

 if the same principles are applied as to other genera, especially of 

 European Coleoptera, that the question must be answered in the 

 second alternative. 



Symphyletes Wallacei. 



S. rufo-castaneus, pube fulvida tectus ; prothorace inermi, 

 fasciolis castaneis fulvisque alternatis ; elytris subelongatis, 

 pauci-granulatis, apice oblique emarginatis, lateribus albo- 

 fulvoque marginatis. 



^flft.—Matabello. 



