Longicornia Malay ana. 471 



Tmesisternus Jierhaceus. (PI. XIX. fig. 4.) 



Pascoe, Journ. of Entom. i. 365. 



T. fusco-viridis, nigro-varius ; elytris maculis duabus 

 albis pone medium exteriie uotatis ; femoribus 

 tibiisque pallide viridibus, tarsis rufo-testaceis. 



Hab. — Mysol, Waigiou, Dorey, Salwatty. 



Browiiish-green, varied or clouded with brown ; head 

 with a coarse grayish pubescence, absent on the mesial 

 line ; prothorax dark green, uniformly covered with a thin 

 pubescence, coarsely punctured except in the middle ; 

 scutellum subquadrate; elytra greenish, especially at the 

 base, and somewhat nitid, behind the middle and on each 

 side near the outer margin a very distinct whitish spot, 

 surrounded by dark brown which shades off into the 

 green ; body beneath glossy brown, the sides with a pale 

 rose-coloured pile ; femora and tibiee pale green, tarsi 

 reddish-testaceous ; antennae slender, setaceous, pale 

 green, with the tips of the joints luteous, darker and less 

 distinct towards the apex. 



Length 5-6 lines. 



A very distinct species, 



Tniesisternus intricatus. 



T. viridi-brunneus, pube grisea variegatus ; prothorace, 

 prassertim in medio, disperse punctate ; elytris 

 cuneatis ( c? ) , fasciis duabus posticis flexuosis. 



Hah. — Mysol, Dorey. 



Greenish-brown, or brown ; head with a grayish 

 pubescence, except on the mesial line ; prothorax grayish, 

 Avith three or five brownish stripes, a central and two 

 lateral, the latter sometimes united, the disk with rather 

 small dispersed punctures, especially towards the middle ; 

 scutellum subscutiform behind ; elytra cuneate {S) > 

 with two indefinite series 'of gray spot-like bands, occupy- 

 ing the base and middle respectively, behind the middle 

 two vexy zig-zag bands, and another at the apex ; body 

 beneath reddish -luteous, the sides with a grayish jjile ; 

 femora and tibi« pale greenish, tarsi yellowish ; antennee 

 pale luteous, or more or less greenish. 



Lenofth 54 lines. 



