188 Longicornia Malay ana. 



hand clavata ; tlblce intermediae fortiter etnarginatae ; tarsi 

 articulo ultimo elongate ; coxce anticse et intermediae validae, 

 approximatae. Pro- et vieso-sterna simplicia. 

 A nimiber of small and obscurely marked species are comprised 

 in tliis genus ; they are on the whole tolerably homogeneous, 

 ahhough the short compact form of the majority is departed from 

 in a few of its members. The transition is, however, gradual, as 

 usual, and there is no other character to separate them. The 

 scape of this genus is variable in size, and there is sometimes 

 a slight but sufficiently obvious difference even in the same 

 species. The head and prothorax are generally strongly, although 

 rather finely, punctured ; the punctures on the elytra are much 

 coarser, and are occasionally subseriately arranged, but only in 

 the centre of the disc ; the pubescence, except on the head, is 

 strictly confined to the spaces between them. The genus is only 

 represented at this time in Australia by a single species (Ropica 

 exocent) aides, Pasc.).* Oopsisf Fairm., restricted to the Fiji and 

 other Pacific Islands, is known by its strongly clavate femora. 



Ropica piper ata. 

 Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 2, iv. 248. 

 R. fuscescens, pube griseo-ochracea interrupta induta ; elytris 

 fusco-irroratis, raaculis parvis albis dispersis ; antennis 

 pedibusque fuscis. 

 Hah. — Sarawak. 



Brown, or reddish-brown, covered with little patches of greyish- 

 ochraceous pile; head and prothorax rather finely punctured; 

 scutellum semicircular; elytra covered with numerous small dark 

 points and patches, mixed with a few white pubescent spots, prin- 

 cipally on the sutural line ; body beneath dark brown, shining, 

 blightly pubescent ; legs and antennae brown. 

 Length 2^ lines. 



Ropica indigna. 

 II. fuscescens, pube sparsa grisea interrupta; elytris basi 

 tenuissime griseo-pubeseeniibus, postice griseo-variegatis ; 

 antennis pedibusque griseo-variis. 

 Hab. — Ceram, Ternate, Gilolo, Bouru. 



Pale brown, with an irregular sparse pubescence ; head covered 

 with coarse greyish hairs; lip pale grey; prothorax very trans- 



• At page 2, in the table of Malayan and Australian species, for Sybra 

 read Ropica, and vice versa. 



