Longicornia Malay ana. 581 



ray collection have the antennge longer than the body, 

 and mnch less dilated, and the basal segment of the 

 abdomen not nearly so large relatively to the other seg- 

 ments; hence they are probably males. 



Prothema humeralis. 



Blenimya Inmieralis, Pascoe, lib. cit. p. 99; Sigeum hu- 

 merale, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 523, pi. xli. fig 2. 



P. atra; elytris albo-fasciatis et lineatis, apicibus albi- 

 dis; corpore infra argenteo-pubescente. 



Hah. — Singapore (and Penang). 



Black, opaque, closely punctured above ; prothorax 

 slightly longer than broad, its apex and base bordered 

 with a pure white pubescence ; each elytron with a white 

 line lying between the suture and side, and at about the 

 middle bending outwards at a right angle, behind the 

 middle a second broader and slightly curved band, and 

 on the apex a pale whitish blotch ; body beneath, with a 

 close-set silvery pubescence ; legs and antennas black, 

 the latter with a brownish pubescence outwards. 



Length 4^ lines. 



Mesoph^a. 



Caput antico verticale, quadra turn, vix productum; 

 tuberibus antenniferis basi approximatis. OcnJi 

 parum emarginati. Antennce ( ? ) lineares, ciliatge ; 

 scapo subcylindrico ; articulo tertio breviusculo, apice 

 spinoso-producto ; quarto fere triple longiore, ceeteris 

 gradatim brevioribus. Prothorax oblongus, subcy- 

 lindricus. Elytra prothorace paulo latiora, parallela, 

 apicibus emarginata, epipleurae angustte . Pedes gra- 

 ciles, postici multo longiores ; femora leviter clavata ; 

 tihice filiformes, ciliatse ; tarsi graciles, antici et in- 

 termedii breves, postici mediocres, articulo basali 

 elongate. Prosternum angustum. Mesosternum sat 

 latum, declive. Abdomen segmento basali vix elon- 

 gate, casteris modice elongatis. 

 The size of the abdominal segments of this genus 

 is exceptional, yet having regard to the habit, and to 

 the presence of epipleurae of the elytra, there can be 

 little hesitation in placing it near Prothema. As in that 



