Longicornia Malayana. 463 



§§ Elytra pubescent. 

 Tinesislernus glaucus. 



T. niger, pube albo-cyanea ornatus ; elytiis macula centro- 

 basali nitida, atra ; antennis tibiisque luleis. 



Hub. — Ainboyna, Ceram. 



Black, clothed with a clear pale whitish-blue pubescence, either 

 nearly uniformly, or divided on the elytra by semi-glabrous, or 

 more finely pubescent, black bands; head and upper lip, with the 

 exception of the mesial groove and a stripe behind the eye, blue- 

 ish ; prothorax blueish, except the narrow central stripe and the 

 edges of the punctures ; scutellum nearly round ; elytra with a 

 moderately large glossy glabrous centro-basal black spot, the rest 

 almost entirely blueish, or with two paler A-bands posteriorly, 

 or the two paler bands united to form one broad band, and 

 generally also a narrower band, or traces of it, behind the central 

 black spot; body beneath and femora blueish, the pectus and a 

 triangular spot on the middle of each abdominal segment glossy- 

 black ; antennae and tibiae clear luteous, tarsi covered with a 

 whitish pubescence. 



Length 9 — 10 lines. 



This pretty species is very variable in the amount and dis- 

 tinctness of its coloration, but its delicate blueish pubescence 

 diflferentiates it from all its congeners, except the following, which 

 is distinguished by its two pure white bands. 



Tmesislernus tersus. 

 Pascoe, Journ. of Ent. i. 365 (1862). 

 Ichthyosomus ^-Jascialusy J. Thomson, Syst. Ceramb. p. 545 



(1865). 

 T. niger, pube caeruleo-glauca tectus ; elytris disperse punc- 

 talis, fasciis duabus albis ornatis ; antennis, tibiis, tarsisque 

 rufo-fulvis. 

 Hub. — Coram, Mano. 



Black, with a fine pale glaucous-blue pubescence; head with a 

 very few punctures between the eyes and on the vertex ; pro- 

 thorax coarsely and irregularly punctured, except in the middle ; 

 elytra irregularly and rather finely punctured, a straight white 

 band before the middle, and another but slightly curved midway 



