226 Longicornia Malay ana. 



tra oblonga, aspera, prothorace multo latiora, dorso sub- 

 planata, lateribus subparallela, basi in medio paulo producta 

 vel lobata, humeris angulatis, apice rotundata. Pedes sub- 

 graciles, intermedii breviores ; acetabula antica angulata ; 

 femora vix incrassata ; tarsi subattenuati, articulo ultimo elon- 

 gato. Prosternum baud elevatum. Mesosternum dentatum. 

 M. J. Thomson places this genus in his " groupe Mesosita," 

 between Jderpas and Anamera,* (the latter, I conceive, belong- 

 ing to the Lamiince) ; the habit, however, the peculiar sculpture 

 of the elytra, and particularly the lobed base, together with the 

 short dense squamosity, so characteristic of the Dorcadionince, 

 seem to me rather to suggest the latter sub-family, notwithstanding 

 its humeral angles, and the possession of wings. There is an un- 

 described genus in the British Museum from North China, 

 which might, at first sight, be taken for a Trachystola, but which 

 is also so suggestive of Phantasis (an African form of Dorcadio- 

 nince), that Mr. White has placed it in immediate connexion with 

 that genus. Admitting the difficulty of locating Trachystola for 

 the present, I have little doubt its true place will be with the Dor- 

 cadionince. M. Thomson's species (T. scabripennis) is from Java, 

 and may possibly be distinct, at least a specimen from the same 

 country in the British Museum, if identical with M. Thomson's 

 type, is sufficiently characteristic to be so considered. 



Trachystola granulosa. 

 Pascoe, Journ. of Entom. i. 351. 

 T. nigra, pube vel squamositate fusco-ferruginea vel fnsca 

 induta ; elytris seriato-granulatis, seriebus duabus regione 

 scutellari abbreviatis. 

 Hab. — Sarawak, Penang. 



Black, opake, everywhere densely covered with a short brown- 

 ish squamosity ; head rounded in front and at the cheeks, and 

 neither punctured nor sulcated ; prothorax transversely grooved 

 anteriorly, with five flattish tubercles on the disk, arranged 2, 1, 

 and 2 (the middle one sometimes obsolete), stoutly spined at the 

 side ; scutellum transversely subcordate ; each elytron with nine 

 rows of black shining granules, the inner row remote from the 

 suture, its granules oblong or linear, a few (6 — 8) granules on each 

 side of the scutellum, arranged in two rows, the second row from 

 the suture extending to half the length of the elytra, space be- 

 tween the suture and the inner row with two irregular lines of 



* Syst. Ceramb. p. fi3. 



