Longicornia Malay ana. 641 



punctured, the base with a border of pure white, formed 

 by close set hairs ; scutellum somewhat oval, narrow 

 pointed, bordered at the sides with long silky whitish 

 hairs; elytra closely punctured, each with a narrow 

 raised ivory-like band a little behind' the middle, but not 

 quite extending to the suture, apices strongly bispinous ; 

 body beneath, except the last three abdominal segments, 

 covered with a very dense grayish silky pubescence, 

 varying with the light; legs and antennae black. 



Length 3^ lines. 



Very like E. lunata, Newm., but with a different pro- 

 thorax, and the underparts varying in colour like shot 

 silk. 



Epipedocera cruentata. 



Clytus cruentatus, Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 2, iv. 239. 



E. atra; capite, prothorace, et macula magna scutellari, 



sanguineis. 

 Hah. — Singapore. 



Black; head, prothorax, and a large space round the 

 scutellum, dark blood-red, the two former very closely 

 punctured, the latter rugosely punctured ; scutellum small, 

 covered with a white silky pubescence ; body beneath 

 red, the sterna and first abdominal segment with a silvery 

 pubescence ; legs and antennee black, sparingly pubescent. 



Length 4 lines. 



Halme. 



Caput insertum, antice breve, verticale, inter antennas 

 paulo excavatum. Mandibulce breves. Oculi fere 

 rotundati, supra parum emarginati. Antennce bre- 

 viusculee, extus crassiores ; scapo cylindrico, articulo 

 secundo elongate, tertio paulo longiore, quarto tertio 

 breviore, 5-10 sensim incrassatis, ultimo breviter 

 ovato. Prothorax globoso-ovalis, basi constrictus. 

 Elytra angusta, parallela, postice haud abrupte de- 

 clivia, apice rotundata. Pedes mediocres; femm-a 

 pedunculato-clavata ; tihice striatje, rectse, brevius- 

 culae ; tarsi fere sequales. Prosternum angustatum. 

 Mesosternum haud latum, declive. 



