Longicornia Malayana. 535 



CalUrrhoe higuttata. 



Stenocorus biguttatuSf Donovan, Ins. of New Holland. 



Coptocercus higuttahis, Hope, 1. c, pi. xii. fig. 7. 



C. fusco-ferruginea ; capite prothoraceque fuscis, hoc 

 lateribus muticis ; elytris flavo-guttatis, apicibus 

 extus spinosis. 



Hab. — Batchian, Kaioa, Bouru (and Australia) . 



Brownish-ferruginous ; head and prothorax brown, 

 somewhat glossy; the latter not spined at the sides, and 

 with a sparse silvery pubescence ; scutellum scutiform, 

 brownish ; elytra strongly punctured at the base, the 

 punctures gradually disappearing towards the middle, 

 with two series of yellow ivory spots, either more or less 

 connected, or with six distinctly separated on each, and 

 another at the apex, the outer angle spined ; body be- 

 neath, legs, and antennae reddish ferruginous. 



Length 6 lines. 



Callidiopsin^. 



Like the Ceramhycince this sub-family is subject to such 

 modifications of structure that it is difficult to limit the 

 genera satisfactorily, and it is as difficult to limit deci- 

 sively the sub-family itself. According to M. Lacordaire, 

 it is extremely near the EligmodermincB, and he separates 

 it rather because of the habit of the species, which is very 

 different in the two groups, than from any dependable 

 technical character. Generally it may be said that the 

 head is small, not prominent, short in front, with the 

 antennary tubers depressed or sometimes obsolete ; the 

 lower lobe of the eyes large, generally close to the man- 

 dibles ; the latter short and pointed ; antennae pubescent, 

 villous and unarmed ; prothorax oval or cylindrical, rarely 

 tubercled ; anterior coxae globose, with their cotyloid 

 cavities open behind, and the intermediate closed in. 

 Some of the species are yellowish varied with dark brown 

 or black, and others — especially most of those here de- 

 scribed—are brown of various shades, with a pubescence 

 consisting of gray decumbent hairs placed apart, and at 

 regular distances. With the exception of four American 

 genera, including one from the West Indies,* and one 



* This is supposed to be the Curtomerus of Stephens, once taken in 

 England, and so introduced into some of our lists. 



