Longicornia Malayana. 421 



verse, not much longer than the head, and sh'ghtly rounded at tlie 

 sides, the disk moderately punctured, the centre with three nearly 

 smooth and impunctate spaces; scutellum rufous, narrow; elytra 

 compared to the head and prothorax in length as 8 to 2|, broad at 

 the base, gradually tapering to the apex, which is reddish-brown, 

 shortly and narrowly emarginate, the middle of each elytron witli 

 a strong carina, not extending to the base or apex, and with 

 about six rows of rather coarse punctures, the outer row confined 

 to the side and supplemented near the shoulder with two shorter 

 rows; pro- and medipectus, fore legs and intermediate femora 

 rufous, rest of the legs black; the two basal abdominal segments 

 dull silvery-white, the last three segments and postpectus dark 

 brownish ; antennae not extending beyond the third abdominal 

 segment, black, the two basal joints and the base of the third 

 rufous. 



Length 10 lines. 



A very short broad prothorax differentiates this species from all 

 which follow, 



Oberea curialis. 

 Pascoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 264. 



O. capite prothoraceque fulvis, hoc subtransverso; elytris 

 nigris, opacis, basi latioribus. 



Hab. — Sumatra (and Penang). 



Moderately robust ; head and prothorax dark orange-red, the 

 latter slightly transverse, the disk more finely punctured but 

 with three irregular smooth spaces ; scutellum narrow, pale or 

 silvery in certain lights ; elytra compared to the head and pro- 

 thorax as about 6 to 2 in one, 7 to 2 in another example, broad 

 at the base, with carina and punctuation as in the last, the apices 

 very slightly emarginate, in one specimen truncate ; body beneath 

 and legs as in the last, but the silvery pubescence of the two 

 basal abdominal segments purer ; antennae black, the basal joint 

 only red. 



Length 8 — 10 lines. 



Shorter elytra than in the last, and the prothorax much less 

 transverse ; the elytra of another specimen are intermediate in 



length. 



Oberea macilenta. 



O. fusca ; capite, prothorace, et basi elytrorum fulvis ; scutello 



angustato, argenteo-piloso. 

 Jfab. — Singapore. 

 Dark brown, h.ead, prothorax, and base of the elytra fulvous ; 



