238 Longicornia Malayana. 



sub-trigonata, hiimeris liaud pioducta, apice truncato-spinosa. 



Pedes breviusculi ; femora medio crassiora ; lurs'i ffiquales, 



hand dilatati. Prosternum latum, elevatum, longitudinaliter 



sidcatum. Mesostenuim productum. 

 By the removal of Othelais and Etymestia this genus is now in- 

 telligibly limited, although one of its species (C. viarmoreus), from 

 its shorter legs and more elongate form, is somewhat aberrant. 

 One of the unpublished species, C. Saga (Dej.), has, however, the 

 elytra rounded at the apex. 



Cereopsius exoletus. 

 Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 2, iv. 105. 

 C. niger ; prothorace utrinque macula alba (vel sulphurea); 

 elytris lateribus albescentibus, singulis maculis duabus (vel 

 tribus) albis (vel sulphureis). 

 Hal). — Sarawak. 



Black ; space round the eye, sides of the prodiorax, a long 

 stripe on each elytron, and body beneath, covered with a 

 whitish pubescence, a large spot on each side of the prothorax 

 anteriorly, and two spots on the stripe of the elytron (the foremost 

 sometimes divided) pure white, or, sometimes, sulphur yellow; 

 elytra sparingly punctured, the central portion of the disk nearly 

 injpunctate ; legs with a fine whitish pubescence ; antennae some- 

 times nearly twice as long as the body, the first two joints black, 

 the remainder chocolate-brown, but darker towards the tip. 

 Length 10 lines. 



Cereopsius luctuosus, 



C. aterrimus; elytris fasciis duabus niveis, ad suluram inter- 

 ruptis, ornatis ; corpore infra nigro. 



Hab. — Ceram, Coram. 



Deep black, with two broad snowy-white bands on the elytra ; 

 head minutely and sparsely pubescent, with a raised vertical line 

 in front ; prothorax sparingly punctiired, entirely black ; scutellum 

 rounded posteriorly ; elytra remotely and irregularly punctured, 

 the black portions covered with short squamiform hairs, the 

 white bands with long normal hairs, the first bai^d midway between 

 the base and middle, the second band nearer the middle than to the 

 apex, both slightly interrupted at the suture; body beneath black, 

 the abdominal segments fringed with white hairs ; antennae and 



