560 Luiujicui'iiia Malay ana. 



postici elon gati ; femora leviter incrassata ; tihice 

 rectae ; tarsi intermedii et postici articulo ultimo 

 elongato. Coxcb anticse conicse. Mesosternum abrupte 

 declive. 



The type of this genus is E. cruentus, a handsome 

 insect discovered by Mr. Lamb in Penang. E. clUaticornis 

 is much narrower, with broader antennse, and the legs 

 and underpart of a rich steel-blue, not black ; E. leptur- 

 oides differs, perhaps generically, in having nearly cylin- 

 drical antennte, still with joints a little dilated at the 

 apex. Another allied species is imperfect, wanting the 

 hind legs, and therefore I have not described it. Eplvies 

 appears to be the Malayan representative of Euryptera. 

 They are all covered with a not very decumbent pubes- 

 cence, which is especially dense on the elytra. 



Ephies dilaticornis. (PI. XXI. fig. 1.) 



E. ater, elytris (apice excepto) sanguineis; corpore 

 infra chalybeate; antennis latis, fortiter serratis. 



Hab. — Sarawak; Sumatra. 



Black, opaque ; elytra, except the posterior third, and 

 sides of the prothorax, dark blood-red; body beneath 

 and legs bright steel-blue; head entirely black; pro- 

 thorax abruptly depressed along the base as in E. cruen- 

 tus } scutellum narrowly triangular; elytra broadest at 

 the base, slightly incurved at the sides, each with two 

 longitudinal impressed lines not going much beyond the 

 middle ; coxas and sterna with a whitish pubescence 

 varying according to the light ; posterior tarsi much short- 

 er than their tibiee ; antennae not extending to the middle 

 of the elytra, the third and succeeding joints as far as 

 the tenth strongly dilated, principally on one side. 



Length 7 lines. 



Ephies lepturoides. 



E. angustatus, niger; prothorace flavo-brunneo ; elytris 

 (apice excepto) rutis ; coxis femoribusque basi albes- 

 centibus; antennis subcylindricis. 



Hab. — Singapore. 



Narrow, black, opaque ; prothorax with a pale fulvous- 

 brown, somewhat silky, pubescence; elytra dull reddish. 



