296 Lortgicornia Malay ana. 



rentiated by the blotched and opake pubescence of the one con- 

 trasted with the varying subnitid pubescence of the other. 



3Ionochamus feralis, 



M. fuscus, opacus, pube sparsa tectus ; scapo brevi, incrassato ; 

 elytris sub-griseatis, basi, fascia postmediana, apiceque fuscis, 

 apicibus fere transversim sub-truncatis. 



JIab. — Florcs, 



Brown, rather thinly covered with an opake dull greyish or 

 brownish pubescence ; head and prothorax with few punctures ; 

 scutellum paler; elytra remotely punctured, apices nearly trans- 

 versely sub-truncate, dull brownish-grey, the base, the band nearly 

 behind the middle, and the apical portion dull brown, these colours 

 obscurely limited, the grey slightly spotting the brown and the 

 brown more decidedly blotching the grey ; body beneath and 

 legs with a pale-ochreous pubescence, the tibiae somewhat hairy ; 

 antennae brownish, the scape thick, scarcely extending beyond the 

 apex of the prothorax. 



Length 9 lines. 



Monochavius tincturatus. 



M. fuscus, breviter pubescens, rufo-fuscus, griseo-irroratus ; 

 scapo apicem versus incrassato; elytris angustis(^), api- 

 cibus oblique sub-truncatis. 



Hah. — VVaigiou. 



Brown, with a short dark reddish-brown pubescence, blotched 

 or spotted with greyish ; vertex impunctate ; face and prothorax 

 with very few punctures ; scutellum brownish ; elytra narrow in 

 the male, finely punctured, apices obliquely sub-truncate ; body 

 beneath and legs with a very delicate greyish pile, varying ac- 

 cording to the light ; antennae pale greyish, the scape short and 

 obconical. 



Length 9 — 10 lines. 



In one specimen the basal half of the elytra is almost entirely 

 dark reddish-brown, in another the shoulders and portions of the 

 shoulders are grey, and elsewhere the grey has a more spotted 

 appearance. 



§ § Apices of the elytra shortly toothed externally. 



Monochmmis magnet'icus. 

 M. pube sericea tectus; elytris argenteo-mutantibus, apicibus 



sul)-oblique truncatis, angulo exteriore vix producto. 

 Hah. — Ceram, Aru? 



