566 Longicornia Malayana. 



Epania. 



Epania, Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 2, iv. 237 ; 

 Lacordaire, Gen. viii. 484. 



Caput hand exsertum, antice breve, subverticale, fronte 

 latum. Oculi supra valde emarginati. Antennce 

 ( ^ ) corpore longiores, basi hand approximatse ; 

 scapo subobconico, articulo tertio scapo jequali, 

 caeteris gradatim longioribus ( ? ) breves, articulis 

 3-10 brevioribus, inter se subaequalibus, apice uni- 

 lateraliter paulo productis, ultimo ovato vel fusiformi. 

 Palpi breves. Prothorax subdepressus, utrinque 

 rotundatus, basi angustatus. Elytra brevissima, 

 apicibus rotundata et dehiscentia. Alee abdomine 

 paulo longiores. Pedes mediocres; femora clavata; 

 tibice posticae arcuate, leviter calcaratse ; tarsi bre- 

 viusculi. Coxce anticae subglobosse, hand eductse. 

 Prosternum angustum, planum. Mcsosternum de- 

 clive. Abdomen oblongo-ovatum, segmento primo 

 longiori, basi paulo constricto. 



The possession of a male of E. discolor has enabled me 

 to give the generic characters of that sex, and to show 

 that hitherto we have only known the females, and not 

 the males, as M. Lacordaire has doubtfully assumed. 

 This genus is the only one in the subfamily with its head 

 not exserted. E. singaporensis, according to Mr. 

 Wallace's notes, fly about like small bees, while E. sara- 

 wacTcensis are found crawling on timber, and in such situa- 

 tions are " hardly distinguishable from ants." Two more 

 species from Amboyna and Mysol respectively are in the 

 collection, but are not in a condition for description. 



§ Posterior femora abruptly clavate. 



Epania singaporensis. 



Odontocera ? Singaporensis, J. Thomson, Arch, Ent. i. 124. 



E. capite prothoraceque nigris ; anteunis brunneis, 

 articulis duobus basalibus rufis; elytris chalybeatis 

 vel nigro-viridibus ; femoribus posticis testaceo-an- 

 nulatis. 



Hab. — Sarawak; Singapore. 



Head and prothorax black, opaque, roughly punctured ; 



