574 Longicornia Malayana. 



ing beyond the abdomen, and only testaceous over a 

 small part of the base, very strongly clavate, their tibisB 

 with a long outer spur ; antennae not extending beyond 

 the middle of the elytra, the last two joints yellow. 

 Length 4 lines. 



Merionoeda suhulata. (PL XXI. fig. 4. <? .) 



{ $ ? .) M. capite prothoraceque luteis ; tibiis pos- 

 ticis rectis. 



Ha h . — Sarawak . 



Head and prothorax reddish-yellow, glossy, the latter 

 strongly tuberculate; scutellum triangular, rounded at 

 the apex; elytra very pubescent at the suture, rather 

 abruptly contracted behind the middle, glossy, black on 

 the outer margin and contracted part, the rest yellow- 

 ish-ochre ; body beneath glossy brown, the thorax, a 

 large spot on the metasternum, and another on the first 

 abdominal segment, yellowish ; femora glossy black with 

 their bases yellowish-testaceous ; anterior and interme- 

 diate tibiae black, clothed with longish yellow hairs below, 

 the posterior entirely black and nearly straight, the 

 inner spur strongly produced in the male ; anterior tarsi 

 yellowish, intermediate clouded with brown, the posterior 

 black ; antennae only slightly fusiform, and extending 

 beyond the middle of the elytra in both sexes, black, 

 opaque, the ninth and tenth, and adjoining portions of 

 the eighth and eleventh joints, yellow. 



Length 5^ lines. 



M. nigriceps {HeUomancs nigriceps, White) , from Moul- 

 mein, approaches this species, but the head is black, 

 and the elytra are broader and rounded posteriorly, the 

 apex of each with a black spot. From the form of its 

 elytra it would require another section for its reception. 



§ § § Elytra short, not subulate. 



Merionoeda hrachyptera. 



( 9 .) M. fulva, antennis (articulo basali excepto) 

 fuscis ; elytris abbreviatis, apicibus infuscatis. 



Hah. — Sarawak ; Singapore. 



Fulvous-yellow ; eyes rather small, not approximate 

 above : head and prothorax finely tomentose, the latter 



