Longicornia Malayana. 1 1 7 



sometimes entirely covered with the pubescence, at other times the 

 pubescence is so thin that the derm may be readily seen, and 

 imparts its colour to modify the general effect, or portions of it 

 may be absent or nearly so, and then there are spots or patches 

 of irregular shape, not always exactly the same even in the same 

 species. 



There is also frequently a little dark ring formed round the edges 

 of the punctures ; these in the following descriptions I have spoken 

 of as " puncla" or "points" to distinguish them from ordinary spots 

 or " macules.''^ The puncturation, otherwise, is everywhere very 

 fine, and is not to be seen without a lens. The mesial line on 

 the head is very slight, scarcely forming a sulcation. The pro- 

 thorax, shorter or more transverse in the female, is, sometimes, 

 much broader at the base than anteriorly, but this is a character 

 which can scarcely be realized by description, unless when very 

 decided. The disc is generally marked by a more or less V-shaped 

 impression anteriorly, posteriorly a similar mark is reversed, the 

 apices of the two being connected by another short longitudinal 

 impression ; the anterior mark, and sometimes the posterior, runs 

 into a transverse groove; generally, too, the disc has two small 

 tubercles, one on each side of the longitudinal impression. The 

 slight variations which occur in these characters are very difficult 

 to define so as to be thoroughly intelligible. 



In nearly all the species the antennae are annulated with white 

 or pale grey ; this colour is found at the bases of most, sometimes 

 of all, the joints, beginning with the third. Except in C. vndiilata, 

 the elytra are rounded at the apex. In C. lacertosa the fore legs 

 of the male are longer and stouter than the intermediate and 

 posterior ; in a less degree, this is also the case with C pohjspila, 

 C, pardal'is, and a few others not in this Collection. 'Iliis character 

 gives them a somewhat difierent habit from the more normal 

 species. The males have longer antenna than the females, and it 

 may be generally noticed that their elytra are much more trigonate 

 in outline. 



Coptops illicita. 

 C. bruimeo-grisescente-pubescens ; elytris punctis numerosis 

 fuscis et fere obsolete fusco-plagiatis; pedibus nigro-annulatis; 

 antennis nigricantibus, griseo-annulatis. 

 Sab. — Saylee. 



Covered with a close brownish-grey pubescence, with indistinct 

 brownish points and patches chiefly confined to the elytra; head, 

 prothorax and scutellum nearly uniformly dull greyish ; elytra 

 having the largest patch of brown behind the shoulder, the rest 



