364 Longicornia Malaymut. 



Glenea. 

 Sphenura, Laporte de Castelnau, Hist. Nat. Ins. ii. 489 (jion 



Lichtenstein). Glenea, Newman, Entom. i. 301. 

 Caput antice paulo rotundatum, inter oculos canaliculatunti. 

 Oculi mediocres, anguste emarginati. Antennce distantes, cor- 

 pore rarissime brevioies {$ ), obsolete articulatae, scapo cylin- 

 drico, articulo tertio caeteris multo longiori, sequentibus paulo 

 sensim deciescentibus. Prolhorax cylindricus, supra quadra- 

 tus, postice lateraliter parum constrictus, basi baud sulcatus. 

 Elytra trigonata ( ^ ), magis parallela ( ? ), disco subde- 

 pressa ; carina fere obsoleta ssepe instructa ; bumeris pro- 

 ductis ; lateribus carinato-deflexis, raro carina obsoleta ; 

 apicibus emarginatis vel truncatis, bispinosis (G. Thovisuni 

 excepta). Pedes modice elongati, poslici longiores ; femora 

 baud clavata ; tibiee paulo trigonatae ; tarsi aequales, ali- 

 quando postici paulo longiores. Ungues in niaribus sim- 

 plices, sed generaliter obtuso-dentati, aliquando acuto-den- 

 tati (e. g. G. Amboynica, G. cyan'ipennis, etc.). Pro- et meso- 

 sterna simplicia. Abdomen segmentis tribus intermediis 

 brevioribus. 

 This genus was first described by M. de Castelnau in 1840, 

 under tbe name of Sphenura, a name previously used for a genus 

 of birds, and was founded on S. novemguttata of Dejean's Cata- 

 logue. Mr. Newman, in 1842, changed the name to Glenea, and 

 described several new species from the Phillippine Islands ; and 

 M. J. Thomson,* in his various works, has since added a very 



* In the " Archives Entoinologiques," Glenea was treated as identical witli 

 Stibara, Hope, but subsequently it was considered by M. Thomson to be 

 sufficiently differentiated by its tumid prothorax, to which may be added the 

 bicarinated disk of the elytra, and the stouter and more distinctly articulated 

 antennae; the two last characters would, however, exclude Lamia nigricorriix, 

 Fab. (Ent. Syst. i. pt. 2, p. 270), hitherto included in it. This species has 

 also a habit so peculiar that, I think, it should form the type of a distinct 

 group, which may be named and characterized as follows : — 



NiCOTELEA. 



Caput antice quadratum; oculi mediocres. Antenna rohustse, breviuscul:je, 

 articulis cylindricis. Prothorax lateraliter tumidus, disco irregular). 

 Elytra dorso planata, baud carinata, lateribus subito deflexis, apicibus 

 truncatis. Pedes robusti, postici paulo longiores. Pio- et meso-sterna 

 simplicia. 



Type Nicotelea nigricornis, Fab. India, Ceylon. 



Stibara obsoleta, Thorns., Ess. &c., p. 60 (1800) is my S. {Glenea) rufiirn, 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 2, iv. 259 (1857). 



