Longicornia Malayana. 467 



edges than between them ; middle line of the body be- 

 neath glossy blacky the sides ashy, spotted with black ; 

 legs and antennse dark brownish luteous. 



Length 10 lines. 



The legs in this species are unicolorous, which inter 

 alia will distinguish it from the others of the ashy 

 sei'ies. 



Tmesis ternus to rridus . 



T. rufo-brunneus, griseo-varius vel fasciatus ; elytris 

 leviter costulatis, apicibus angulo externo producto. 



Hab. — Gilolo, Batchian. 



Light reddish, varied or banded with gray ; head 

 with the mesial line and two lines behind each eye 

 brown, the clypeus produced in the middle ; prothorax 

 grayish, with three brown thinly pubescent stripes ; 

 scutellum somewhat semicircular, brown with two gray 

 stripes ; elytra with irregular large grayish patches, 

 mostly confluent at the base, at the middle a broad 

 V-shaped band, two arched bands below, the second 

 much narrower and flexuovis, the apices also grayish, 

 each with the external angle produced, near the suture 

 on each elytron three raised lines, the intermediate one 

 the most prominent, especially posteriorly ; body beneath 

 grayish spotted with brown, the central line glossy 

 brown ; legs pale luteous, with the femora greenish, or 

 the legs entirely bright luteous, thinly pubescent ; an- 

 tennae reddish-luteous. 



Length 9-10 lines. 



In this very distinct species the apex of the clypeus is 

 so produced as to create a tolerably distinct emargination 

 on each side, above which is an arched raised line which 

 seems to be the edge of the clypeus itself; the raised 

 lines on the elytra occur also in a few other species, such 

 as T. marmoratiis, T. vagus, T. lierhaceus, &c. 



Tmesisternus opalescens. (PI. XIX. fig. 3.) 



T. luteo-brunneus, capite, prothorace medio excepto, 

 elytrisque maculis fasciiformibus viridi-opalescen- 

 tibus. 



Hah. — Moluccas. 



Luteous brown, varied or banded with a pale yellowish- 

 green opalescent pubescence ; head opalescent, the mesial 



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