314 Longicornia Malayayia. 



Glossy-black, distinguished from all the other species by the 

 smoothness and impunctuation of the elytra except at the base ; " 

 in colour some specimens are entirely black, always excepting 

 the scutellum, others are as described by M. Thomson. 



Length 7 — 9 lines.* 



Gnoma longttarsis. 



G, fusca ; elytris angustatis, fulvo-irroratis, sat fortiter punctatis ; 

 tarsis anticis elongatis ; antennarum articulo tertio laeve. 



Sab. — Singapore, Sarawak. 



Brown, or yellowish-brown, slightly shining ; head sparingly 

 punctured in front, when fresh clothed with an ochreous tomen- 

 tum ; prothorax elongate ; elytra narrow, the sides sub-parallel, 

 rather coarsely and closely punctured, and marked with numerous 

 dull ochreous or fulvous spots ; body beneath more or less spotted 

 with ochreous ; legs slender, the anterior tarsi elongate ; antennae 

 with the third joint smooth. 



Length 10—12 lines. 



Gnoma puherea. 



G. fusca ; elytris trigonatis, pallide irroratis ; tarsis anticis 

 baud elongatis ; antennarum articulo tertio rugoso. 



Hab. — Macassar. 



Brown, slightly shining; head obsoletely punctured, covered 

 with an ochreous tomentum ; prothorax moderately elongate ; 

 elytra trigonate, speckled with pale yellowish-grey, principally 

 along the suture ; body beneath, especially on the sterna and ab- 

 domen, with a yellowish-ferruginous pubescence ; legs rather 

 robust, elongate, the anterior tarsi of the normal length ; third 

 joint of the antennae rugose. 



Length 13 lines. 



Gnoma dispersa. 

 Pascoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 18G6, p. 252. 

 G. fusca, pube brevi grisea tecta ; elytris/ pallide ochraceo- 

 irroratis, prothorace multo longioribus ; pedibus niodice 

 elongatis. 

 Hab. — Singapore, Macassar, ^atchian, Java. 

 Brown, covered with a short greyish or sometimes ochreous 



• One specimen from Dorey, with the punctures extending to the middle 

 of the elytra, is 13 lines in length : query, if G. ctenostomoides ? 



