Longicornia Malay ana. 313 



a few specks on the sides, white ; sculpture of the prothorax and 

 punctures on the elytra as in G. giraffa ; body beneath black, 

 sterna, abdomen and legs with a very delicate greyish-white pu- 

 bescence ; epistei na and epimera of the mesothorax and abdominal 

 segments at the sides white. The example from Ternate is more 

 pubescent, and therefore less glossy than the others. The female 

 varies considerably in the amount and disposition of the white 

 portion. G. albo-vittata. Thorns., is probably one of them. 

 Length 14 lines. 



Gnotna propinqua. 



G. nigra, nitida ; vitta mediana prothoracis, suturaque albis; 

 elytris breviusculis, trigonatis. 



Hab. — Makian. 



Resembles the preceding except in the white pubescence 

 being confined to a central stripe along the prothorax and 

 elytra— a point probably of little importance — but the elytra 

 are much shorter and much broader at the base, and are very 

 decidedly trigonate. There is but a single specimen in the collec- 

 tion ; but (With the proviso mentioned above) I have not the 

 slightest hesitation in separating it from the preceding. 



Length 15 lines. 



Gnoma albotessellata. 

 Blanchard, Voy. au P61e Sud, iv, pi. xvii. fig. 8. 

 G. nigra, nitida; prothorace vitta mediana alba; elytris latius- 



culis, maculis albis dispersis. 

 Mab.-^—Aru, Dorey. 



Broader and more robust than any of the preceding, without 

 any sutural stripe on the elytra, which are more or less speckled, 

 the median stripe on the prothorax variable, sometimes nearly 

 obsolete ; one large central white spot on each elytron, a smaller 

 one near the apex ; the epimera and episterna of the mesothorax 

 and sometimes the borders of the abdominal segments white. 

 Length 12 lines. 



Gnoma ctenostomoides. 

 J. Thomson, Bssai &c., p. 105. 

 G. nigra, nitida ; elytris impunctatis, basi granulato-punctata 



excepta. 

 Hab. — Waigiou, Mysol, Aru, Dorey. 



