94 Longicornia Malayana. 



This is the most striking of all the genera o^ NiphonincB, and it 

 is the more remarkable inasmuch as the female has an unusually 

 stout and lengthened tooth on the side of the prothorax anteriorly, 

 while in the male there is no appearance whatever of any such 

 armature. On the other hand, the male has a very powerful 

 spine on the anterior coxa, as well as a sharp tooth on the pro- 

 tibia ; these are denied to the females. I have dedicated the only 

 species at present known to W. Wilson Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., 

 &c. 



X'lpholheata Saundcrsii. (PI. V. fig. 7.) 



X. nigra, nitida, glabrata, sive maculis fasciisque paucis fulvo- 

 pubescentibus. 



Hoh. — Batchian, Morty, Gilolo. 



Black, glabrous, shining ; head much narrower than the pro- 

 thorax, very rugosely punctured, with a few spots of silvery hairs, 

 a narrow median line on the vertex only, succeeded by a broad 

 impression between the eyes ; epistome very short and narrow ; 

 lip broader and longer ; mandibles and palpi black ; prothorax 

 rather uneven, with a few rough punctures, the apex bordered 

 with a fringe of silvery hairs, which are directed forwards on the 

 head, the transverse sulcation behind filled in with short fulvous 

 or sometimes white hairs ; scutellum transverse, slightly pointed 

 posteriorly; elytra with lines and spots of closely-set hairs, white 

 or fulvous, or both ; a line at the base curving downwards below 

 the scutellum, sometimes absent ; a transverse line before the 

 middle, another slightly curved behind the middle, a very few 

 scattered spots between these lines, and a closely-set row running 

 down the attenuated apical portion ; body beneath glossy black, 

 a few lines of rusty hairs variously dispersed, and some even on 

 all the coxae ; legs black, rugosely punctured, nearly glabrous ; 

 antennae black, the scape punctured. 



Length {$) W lines, (?) 9 lines. 



Mesosin^. 



With few exceptions this sub-family will be found to be iden- 

 tical with the 17th " groupe Mesositce" of M. J. Thomson's 

 " Systema Cerambycidarum." It is principally characterised by 

 its long and more or less cylindrical scape, generally arising from 

 a very short or nearly obsolete tuber, which is rarely approximate 

 to its fellow. 



Many of the members of this sub-family are among the hand- 

 somest of the Lamiidce of the old world. They are in fact con- 



