Longicornia Malay ana. 271 



Batocera leonina. 

 J. Thomson, Syst. Ceramb. p. 551. 

 (?) B. White'i, Kaup, Einige Ceramb. &c., p. — , tab. Hi., fig. 7. 

 B. ferruginea, fulvo-tomentosa ; elytris immaculatis, apicibus 

 bisinuatis et bimucronatis ; scapo antennarum baud cica- 

 tricoso. 

 Hah. — Menado. 



Derm reddish-ferruginous, covered with a close bright fulvous 

 tomentum ; vertex granulated ; prothorax immaculate, strongly 

 grooved and corrugated transversely ; scutellum transverse ; elytra 

 nearly parallel at the sides, ($) very uniformly covered with 

 tomentum, except the usual granules at the base, the apex of 

 each bisinuate, each angle ending in a well-defined mucro ; body 

 beneath and legs with a tawny pubescence, no lateral stripe ; an- 

 tennae ( 5 ) with scarcely any trace of spines, or in anywise sca- 

 brous, the scape without a cicatrix. 

 Length 27 lines. 



My description, like M. Thomson's, is made from a female ; 

 but the species is distinguished by the absence of the cicatrix on 

 the scape ; the antennae are about two-thirds longer than the body. 



There is in the collection the female of another and apparently 

 distinct species, which is uniformly covered with a thin yellowish- 

 grey pubescence, has the apices of the elytra acutely bispinous, 

 and the antennae ringed with ashy. It stands under the provisional 

 name of Batocera Claudia in my cabinet. 



Megacriodes. 



Characteres ut in Batocera, sed antennce muticae, et elytra postice 

 sensim attenuata, humeris baud spinosis. 



The two examples of the type of this genus in my collection, 

 the only ones I am acquainted with, appear to be females, so that 

 the character of the male antennae remains to be ascertained. In 

 the female, however, they are perfectly mutic, except the minute 

 spines at the apices of some of the joints, and in this respect, as 

 well as in the non-spinous shoulders, the genus differs essentially 

 from Batocera. Mr. Wallace informs me that the spots on this 

 insect when alive were of the richest yellow ; one of my specimens 

 still preserves much of this colour, in the other they are pure 

 white. These spots are formed by a singularly dense and matted 

 pubescence. 



