Lonyicornia Malayana. 327 



Pothyne capito. 



P. fuscescens, griseo-lineata, pube subtilissima tecta. 



Hub. — Dorey, Ternate, Ceram. 



Brownish, or reddish-brown, with a very delicate pubescence, 

 and longitudinal yellowish-grey lines ; head rather large, sub-quad- 

 rate in front, somewhat coarsely punctured, a yellowish border 

 to the eye continued to the mouth ; prothorax transversely cor- 

 rugated, with one central and three lateral stripes ; scutellum 

 semicircular ; elytra rather closely punctured, each with four 

 stripes, including the one bordering the suture ; body beneath and 

 legs with a greyish pile, the sterna with a broad yellowish stripe 

 on each side ; antennae brown, about half as long again as the 

 body. 



Length 7 lines. 



Saperdin.e. 



Saperda was one of the few genera formed by Fabricius out of 

 the old Cerambyx, in which Linnaeus, now exactly 100 years ago, 

 had included all the Longicornia known to him, except Leptura and 

 Necydalis.* The only character, however, which had a real exist- 

 ence in differentiating Saperda from Lamia — another of the Fa- 

 brician genera — was the unarmed prothorax of the former as con- 

 trasted with the spined one of the latter ; and chiefly on this 

 character M. Muisant in 1839 divided his " groupe Clinocepha- 

 lides" (= Lamiidae) into two families " Lamiens" and ^^ Super dins" 

 M. C. G. Thomson (Skandinaviens Coleoptera, i. 152), whilst 

 adopting this division, distinguishes the former principally by their 

 clavate femora ; and being thus obliged to admit Motwchamus, 

 which has nearly linear femora, into the Saperdince, he attaches a 

 secondary importance to the prothorax. Both these authors deal 

 with limited local faunas, but tested in a broader field the absence 

 or presence of a spine or tooth on the prothorax is a far more 

 valuable character than the clavate or linear femora. 



The sub-family, as it is here limited, very nearly agrees with 

 the SaperditcB verts of M. J. Thomson's Systema ; but with the 

 addition of Serixia, which that author has arranged with the ^m- 

 phionychince, notwithstanding that it has simple claws. Whether 

 the Agapanlhiinoe should be maintained as a distinct sub-family, 



* Syst. Nat. ed. xii. The first species of Leptura, however, is a Donacia, 

 and all tlie Necydales but three are Heteromera. 



