6B6 Longicornia Malayana. 



distinguished from all other Ceramhycidce by having the 

 antennsB inserted between the eyes and the mandibles. 

 The species are few in number, and are divided between 

 Malaisia and America. 



Genera. 

 Eyes finely granulate. 



Ninth and tenth joints of 

 the antennae as long as 

 the preceding . . Noemia, Pasc. 

 Ninth and tenth joints 

 shorter than the preced- 

 ing .... Nericonia, n. g. 

 Eyes coarsely granulate. 



Femora clavate . . Melegena, n. g. 



Femora linear . . . Psalarita, n. g. s: Ti^poj 



Noemia. 



Noemia, Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 2, iv. Ill; 

 Lacordaire, Gen.ix. 228. 



Caput porrectum, inter antennas transverse elevatum; 

 antice paulo productum. OcitZi tenue granulati ; fere 

 rotundi, supra distantes. Antennce corpore duplo 

 longiores, setacese, basi subapproximatse ; scapo 

 elongato-pyriformi, basi arcuato; articulis tertio et 

 sequentibus longioribus, subsequalibus. Palpi maxil- 

 lares elongati^ articulo ultimo ovato. Prothora>x 

 oblongus, pone apicem late constrictus, lateraliter 

 angulatus. Elytra elongata, depressa, subparallela, 

 vel leviter gradatim attenuata^ apicibus rotundatis. 

 Pedes modice elongati; femora basi pedunculata; 

 tibice lineares ; tarsi breviusculi. Prostermtm angus- 

 tatum, depressum, Mesosternwm sat latum, paulo 

 convexum. Abdomen segmentis tribus primis aequali- 

 bus, duobus ultimis gradatim brevioribus. Corpus 

 parce pilosum. 



The antennae are, probably, in the early life of these 

 insects, always fringed with long hairs, but in the majority 

 of individuals they are bare, or nearly so. M. Lacordaire 

 thinks the fringe may be a characteristic of the males, but 

 two of my specimens, which from the more slender and in- 

 curved abdomen, at least towards the apex, I regard as 



