Longicornia Malay ana. 477 



and last abdominal segment, which are glossy brown ; 

 femora and antennae dull greenish ; tibise and tarsi dull 

 luteous. 



Length 7 lines. 



A very distinct species, as is also the following. 



Tmesisternus avarus. 



T. flavescens, lateribus fusco-vittatis, elytris regione 

 suturali brunnea vage limitata ; antennis pedibusque 

 fulvo-brunneis. 



Hah.—Kej. 



Pale grayish-yellow, middle of the elytra along the 

 suture light reddish-brown, more or less spotted with 

 grayish-yellow, the sides from the eye to near the apex of 

 the elytra, but interrupted by two or three grayish-yellow 

 spots on the latter, dark reddish-brown ; head with a 

 very few small punctures, the pubescence extending close 

 to the mesial line; prothorax remotely punctured, the 

 disk entirely pubescent; scutellum round; elytra rather 

 convex, irregularly punctured, the punctures not larger 

 at the base than at the apex ; body beneath glossy red- 

 dish-brown, the sides with a grayish pubescence, spotted 

 with brown ; antennae and legs light reddish-brown, with 

 a thin grayish pile. 



Length 7 lines. 



Tmesisternus hieroglyphicus. 

 Blan chard, Voy. au Pole Sud, iv. 286. 



T. fuscus, cinerascente-pubescens ; elytris griseo- 

 lineatis, pr^cipue duabus basalibus conjunctis 

 V-formantibus, et una laterali obliqua, duabus alteria 

 posticis, omnibus antice fusco-limbatis. 



Sab. — Aru (and Triton Bay, New Guinea). 



Dark brown, with an ashy pubescence ; head and pro- 

 thorax ashy, the latter rather coarsely punctured, with a 

 narrow central and two lateral brown stripes ; scutellum 

 subscutiform, ashy in the middle ; elytra ashy, coarsely 

 punctured, a white line from near the shoulder passing 

 inwards and downwards to the suture, forming with its 

 fellow a V-shaped mark, another oblique line external to 

 the above, and passing downwards to the outer margin. 



