Longicornia Malay ann, 195 



sides; scutellum nearly triangular; elytra reddish-testaceous in 

 the centre, clouding into dark brown towards the sides, but be- 

 coming lighter again at the margins, a little behind the middle a 

 large flexuous white band ; body beneath pale reddish, thinly 

 pubescent, the basal segment of the abdomen fringed with yellow- 

 ish hairs ; legs slightly banded with pale reddish and brown ; 

 antennae reddish-teslaceous, with spots of greyish pile. 

 Length 3 lines. 



Ropica irntala. 

 E. fusca, pube griseata tecta ; elytris subelongatis, maculis 



magnis obscure griseis subobsoletis instructis. 

 Hnb. — Tondano. 



Dark brown, covered with a short compact greyish or ochreous- 

 grey \n\e ; head and prothorax slightly punctured, the latter 

 robust, broader than the former, the sides strongly rounded ; 

 scutellum nearly triangular ; elytra slightly elongate, coarsely 

 punctured; body beneath and legs dark chesnut-brown, the first 

 abdominal segment closely fringed with yellowish silky hairs ; 

 antennae about a third longer than the body, nearly unicolorous. 

 Length 3 lines. 



Ropica illiterata. 

 R. fuscescens, pube fusco-grisea tecta; prothorace elytrisque 

 fusco-plagiatis, his subelongatis, maculis duabus albis in- 

 structis, una submediana, altera posteriori. 

 Hab. — Sarawak. 



Brownish, with a dark greyish compact pile ; head rusty grey, 

 slightly punctured ; prothorax robust, subtransverse, broader 

 than the head, remotely and irregularly punctured, darker at the 

 sides ; scutellum transverse ; elytra subelongate, very slightly 

 raised at the base so as to form a kind of ridge, behind the mid- 

 dle two whitish spots, each of which has dashes of brown before 

 and behind it ; body beneath and legs brown, with a thin smooth 

 pubescence ; antennae longer than the body, covered with small 

 greyish spots. 

 Length 4 lines. 



Ropica servlUs. 

 R. fuscescens, pube ochraceo-grisea tecta ; capitis vertice pro- 

 thoraceque fuscatis, vittis duabus griseis ; elytris elongatis, 

 ad basin inter scutellum et humeros macula grisea, disco ma- 

 culis pallidis, aliquando obsoletis. 

 Hab. — Batchian, Gilolo, Ceram, Bouru, Mysol, Ternate, Aru, 

 Dorey. 



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