256 Longicornia Malayana. 



transversus, utrinque pone medium spinosus. Elytra basi 



latiora, humeris rotundatis, apicibus bispinosis. Pedes 



mediocres, antici breviores ; femora paulo clavata ; tarsi 



sub-aequales, Prosternum elevatum, antice dilatatum. Me- 



sosterimm elevatum. 



M. J. Tliomson has separated this and two other species from 



Zygocera, to which I had referred them, to form three genera. 



This, however, is the only one which occurs in the Malayan 



Fauna, and is distinguished from Zygocera by its transverse face 



and the anteriorly-dilated prosternum extending more or less 



in front of the anterior coxae. The latter character it has in 



common with Disterna — another of the three genera alluded to, — 



and from this it scarcely differs, except in the form of the head 



anteriorly. 



Nicippe complexa. 

 Zygocera complexa, Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 2, v. 34. 



N. castanea, fasciis maculisque ochraceis ornata. 



Hab. — Aru. 



Somewhat depressed, varying from reddish to dark chesnut- 

 brown, with bands and spots formed by short ochreous hairs ; 

 head with two broad stripes in front, two narrower ones on the 

 vertex, and an oblique one beneath each eye ; prothorax with 

 three bands, which are united in the middle and on each side ; 

 scutellum ochreous, transverse, rounded behind ; elytra scarcely 

 broader than the prothorax (including the spines of the latter), 

 each with three carinae posteriorly, the innermost and outermost 

 terminating in the two apical spines respectively, the ochreous 

 markings very complicated, but three irregular bands may be dis- 

 tinguished—one before the middle, one near the apex, and one 

 intermediate ; between these and at the base are numerous, small, 

 more or less flexuous spots ; body beneath and legs brownish, 

 sometimes varied with darker ; antennae brownish. 



Length 5 lines. 



The following genus, in the great length of the antennae and 

 the short feet, seems to approach Hippopsis ; but the shortness 

 of the sterna and the cicatricose scape forbid any association in 

 that direction ; there is an analogy, at least, between this genus 

 and O/rot'rt, in the breadth of the anterior tarsi, and the approxi- 

 mation of the antennary tubers is significant of its probable affinity 

 to the Hypselomince. 



