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genus and the preceding there is a very considerable break, but 

 this cannot be avoided in a linear arrangement. The only de- 

 scribed species of Psectrocera has been long known as the scopuli- 

 cornis of Dejean's Catalogue, and was originally from Java. 



Psectrocera plumosa. 

 Glioma! plumosa, Westwood, Cab. Orient. Ent. p. 1 1, pi. v. fig. 3. 



P. subtiliter pubescens, fusca, ochraceo-lineata et sub-maculata ; 

 antennis griseatis, plumis nigro-fuscis. 



Hah. — Sarawak. 



Finely pubescent, dark brown, with longitudinal lines of ochreous, 

 which on the elytra are more or less connected by small obscurer 

 spots ; head spotted in front, the vertex with three narrow lines, 

 the side with one ; prothorax with corresponding stripes, but with 

 two additional on each side beneath; scutellum ochreous, and, to- 

 gether with a medio-basal line on the prothorax, and two lines 

 proceeding from its apex and diverging behind on the elytra, 

 brighter and more pubescent than the rest ; elytra with a double 

 row of small granulations at the base ; body beneath and legs 

 brownish, pubescent, the former with a pale line along the sterna 

 and sides of the abdomen ; antennae reddish-grey, the plumes, which 

 are confined to the tips of the joints beneath, blackish-brown. 



Length 8 lines. 



Gnoma. 

 Gnoma, Fabricius, Syst. Eleut. ii. 315. 



Caput exsertum, antice sub-quadratum, clypeo apice sinuato ; 

 tuberibus antenniferis validis, basi approximatis. Oculi medi- 

 ocres, lobo superiore magnitudinis normalis. AntentKS elon- 

 gatse ; scapo sub-cylindrico, prothoracem attingente, apice 

 valde cicatricoso ; articulo tertio scapo quadruplo longiore ; 

 caiteris tertio brevioribus, aequalibus, vel aliquando paulo 

 gradatim decrescentibus, ultimo saepe excepto. Protho- 

 rax {$) valde elongatus, inermis, medio incurvatus. Elytra 

 breviuscula, sub-trigonata {$), oblongo-ovata ($), apicibus 

 rotundatis. Pedes elongati, antici prsesertim in $ longiores, 

 postici breviores ; femora in medio modice vel vix incrassata ; 

 tih'ice anticae sub-arcuatae, apice intus dentatse ; tarsi antici {$) 

 frequenter longiusculi, dilatati, piloso-marginati, postici mi- 

 nores. Proslernum angustatum, simplex. Mesosternum 

 dentatum. 



The species of this very natural genus are very difficult to dis- 



