Longicornia Malayana. 221 



BiTYLE. 



Caput antice quadratum, tuberibus antenniferis validis, basi 



approximatis, Ocnli mediocres, modice emarginati. An- 



tennce corpore longiores, pubescentes, subfimbriatae; scapo 



cylindrico; articulo tertio scapo fere aequali ; quarto longiore; 



sequentibus multo brevioribus et gradatim decrescentibus. 



Prothorax capite paulo latior, subquadratus. Elytra an- 



gusta, apicibus angulatis, humeris baud prominnlis, rotun- 



datis. Pedes mediocres, postici paulo longiores ; mesotihics 



fortiter emarginatae ; tarsi breves, trigonati. Pro- et meso- 



sterna declivia. 



Though very distinct, this genus, like the last, is without any 



salient characters; but without being very obviously allied, its 



place, in the collection, appears to be after Piihodia. 



Bityle bicolor. (PI. X. fig. 5.) 



B. atra, cinereo-pubescens ; elytris fasciis tribus glabris atris. 



Hab, — Menado. 



Deep black, covered with an ashy pubescence, except three 

 black bands on the elytra, and a median stripe on the prothorax ; 

 head with a few punctures on the vertex ; prothorax sparsely 

 punctured, gradually narrower towards the base, the sides nearly 

 straight; scutellum triangular ; elytra seriate-punctate, the base 

 ashy, followed by a black band, then ashy with two or three black 

 spots, at the middle another black band, and a third band towards 

 the aptx ; body beneath pubescent, ashy, the middle of the abdo- 

 men glabrous; legs and antennas covered with an ashy pile. 



Length 4 lines. 



J^ote. — M.J.Thomson has a genus Sydonia in his SystemaCerambycidarum, 

 p. 45, which appears to be allied to Zorilispe (ante, p. 156), but the characters 

 "prothorax later, sinuatus" and the elytra " postice dehiscentia" are not 

 applicable to it. The species is thus described — 



"Type: Sydonia apomecynoides, Thomson. 



" Long. 10 mill. Lat. 3 mill. 



"Brunnea, lanugine flava vestita ; antennae subpilosae; elytra maculis 

 aliquibiis nigris irregularibus suturalibus post medium sitis ornata. Singa- 

 pore." 



