248 Longicornia Malayana. 



disk slightly irregular ; scutellum narrower anteriorly, broad and 

 slightly emarginate posteriorly ; elytra divided into nine more or 

 less equal bands, the basal, apical, and three middle bands being 

 black, sub-glabrous and punctured, the punctures becoming nearly 

 obsolete posteriorly, the four ochreous bands formed by a very 

 closely-set pubescence ; body beneath, legs and antennae black, 

 with a blueish tinge, especially the legs, and covered with a minute 

 scattered pubescence. 



Length 8—9 ( $ )— 1 1 ( ? ) lines. 



Agnia eximia, 

 'Pascoe, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 3, v. 120. 



A. aterrima, nitida, fere glabra, maculis niveo-pubescentibus 

 ornata. 



Hab. — Batchian, Gilolo. 



Deep glossy black, nearly glabrous ; an oblique line below the 

 eye and across the cheek, another behind the eye ; posterior 

 border of the prothorax, the scutellum, and several transverse 

 spots and patches on the elytra formed of a snowy-white pubes- 

 cence ; head and prothorax with minute scattered punctures, the 

 latter with a strongly impressed groove anteriorly, the two hinder 

 grooves concealed by pubescence ; scutellum semicircular ; elytra 

 more closely and coarsely punctured at the base, generally one 

 spot only behind the middle common to both elytra ; body be- 

 neath and legs black, sparingly covered with a delicate ashy pu- 

 bescence, borders of the abdominal segments snowy ; antennae dull 

 black. 



Length 6 — 11 lines. 



Pharsalia. 

 Pharsalia, J. Thomson, Syst. Ceramb. p. 85. 

 Caput mediocre, supra angustius ; tuberibus antenniferis vali- 

 dis, breviusculis, intus apice productis. OciiU mediocres. 

 Antennce{^$^ longissimae, baud fimbriatac ; scapo cylindrico, 

 elongato, cicatricoso ; articulo tertio multo longiore(^), vix 

 longiore vel breviore ( ? ); cacteris plus minusve paulo bre- 

 vioribusvel sub-aequalibus. Pro/Z/orflX sub-trans versus, utrin- 

 que in medio fortiter spinosus, antice et postice constrictus. 

 Elytra sub-trigonata, in foeminis magis oblongo-ovata, basi 

 bi-gibbosa, humeris productis, apicibus truncatis, vel rotun- 

 datis. Prosternum sub-elevatum. Mesosternum antice pro- 

 ductum. 



