262 Longicornia Malayana. 



§ Prothorax bimaculatus. 



Batocera octomaculata. 



Lamia 8-maculata, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. ii. 290. 



Batocera Sarawakens'is, J. Thorns. Arch. Ent. i. 452, pi. xix. fig. 2. 



B. fusca, griseo-pubescens ; scutello elytrisque maculis 8 — 10 

 niveis ; horum apicibus oblique truncatis, angulo suturali 

 mediocriter spinoso, angulo externo parum producto. 



Hab. — Malacca, Sumatra, Borneo, Java, Banda. 



Pale reddish-brown to dark brown, with a delicate uniform 

 greyish or yellowish-grey pubescence ; head impunctate, a pale 

 yellowish rim round the eyes, with small black granules at sliort 

 intervals ; antennae slightly pubescent, apices of the joints from 

 the fourth to the eighth with two short spines, the ninth slightly 

 dilated on one side; prothorax transverse, the breadth, including 

 the spines, nearly twice the length; scutellum white; elytra of 

 intermediate length, with four snowy-white spots in the middle line 

 of each, more or less equally distant from each other and the base 

 and apex, the second generally the largest and often accompanied 

 by a smaller spot external to it, shoulders with a short spine 

 directed outwards, apices slightly obliquely truncate, the sutural 

 angle terminating in a moderately short spine, the outer angle 

 only slightly produced, not spinous ; body beneath pubescent, 

 grey, a broad snowy stripe extending from the eye along the sides 

 of the prothorax and sterna to the fourth abdominal segment ; 

 legs with a delicate grey pubescence. 



Length 11 — 20 lines. 



I have been unable to find any character to separate 73. octo- 

 viaculata and B. Sarawakensis, and an) very doubtful as to the 

 claims of the next following. 



Batocera Celehiana. 

 J. Thomson, Arch. Ent. i. 453, pi. xx. fig. 1. 

 B. fusca vel nigro-fusca, griseo- vel ochraceo-pubescens ; scutello 

 elytrisque maculis C — 8 niveis ; horum apicibus sinuatis, 

 angulo suturali mediocriter spinoso, angulo externo parum 

 producto. 

 Hab. — Tondano, Menado, Macassar. 



The only character I can discover to distinguish this from the 

 last is the sinuate apex of the elytron; I am not sure that it is per- 



