562 Longicornia Malayana, 



Hah. — Java (and Malacca). 



Reddish-ochraceous, with a slightly silky pubescence ; 

 head and prothorax with a golden tinge, the latter with 

 four tubercles on the disc, the two anterior the largest, the 

 centre depressed ; scutellum glabrous, black, elongate- 

 triangular ; elytra rounded at the apex, the sutural angle 

 spined, the shoulders elevated, each elytron with two 

 small whitish spots near the middle ; body beneath dark 

 brown ; legs reddish-fulvous, the femora subnitid. 



Length 15 lines. 



MoLORCHINiE. 



Some of the genera of this subfamily [Hephcestion, 

 SpJiecogastcr, CalUspliyris) are among the most striking 

 of the Ceramhycidce, but its representative in Malaisia 

 [Thranitts) has a common-place appearance enough, and 

 seems to me a rather aberrant form of the group. 

 Molorchus * major is a well-known European species, and 

 M. ulmi closely resembles it ; all the rest are American 

 — North and South. The principal characters of the 

 Molorchince are the imperfection of the elytra, the pe- 

 culiar wasp-like form of the abdomen, and the conical 

 anterior coxae. 



Genu^. 

 Thranius, Pasc. 



Thranius. 



Thranius, Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 2, v. 22; 

 Lacordaire, Gen. viii. 470. 



Caput verticale, fronte breve, inter oculos latum. 

 OcuU fere rotundati. Antennce corpore breviores, 

 filiformes, basi distantes ; scapo cylindrico ; articulo 

 tertio duobus sequentibus aequali, his c^terisque 

 fere sequalibus. Palpi breves. Prothorax cylindricus, 



* The majority of authorities call this genns Necydalis, Linn., retain- 

 ing Molorchus, Fab., for N. minor, Linn., the only species known to the 

 Swedish naturalist when he proposed the name, and with which he after- 

 wards associated major. The latter was subsequently placed by Fabricius 

 at the head of his Molorchus, and the term Necydalis applied to the 

 beteromerous (Edemerm of Olivier. M. Mulsant, in separating major from 

 m,inor, reversed the right appropriation of the two names ; and, as usual, 

 one author copies another. For further remarks see Ann. and Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. ser. 3, xix. 110 ; and Dallas, in Zool. Record, 1867, p. 291. 



