Longicornia Malay ana. 657 



belonging to that sex, have no vestige of it. These speci- 

 mens are also furnished with a rather long vertical spine 

 on each side of the mesosternum, close to the edge of 

 the cotyloid cavity; they are of a pale yellow colour, 

 and contrast strongly with the deep blue of the under 

 surface. 



Noemia flavicornis. 

 Pascoe, I. c, pi. xxii. fig. 8. 



N. cyanea ; labro, palpis, femoribus basi, antennisque 

 flavis. 



Hah. — Singapore; Sarawak; Sumatra (and Penang). 



Deep indigo-blue, shining; lip, palpi, femora at the 

 base, and antennge, yellow; head scarcely punctured, a 

 longitudinal groove between the eyes ; prothorax remotely 

 punctured, rather gibbous between the lateral angles ; 

 scutellum narrow, rounded at the apex; elytra coarsely 

 punctate-striate, with a violet tint at the sides; body 

 beneath blue, sparsely pubescent, tarsi dull yellowish. 



Length 7 lines. 



Noemia 8tevensii. 



Pascoe, I. c. 



N. viridis, elytris testaceo-brunneis, apice margini- 

 busque nigris ; labro, palpis, femoribus basi, tibiis, 

 tarsis, antennisque flavis. 



Hah . — Sarawak . 



Head and prothorax glossy green; elytra light testa- 

 ceous brown, with the apex and outer margins black; 

 lip, palpi, femora at the base, tibiae, tarsi and antennae, 

 yellow; scutellum dark green, rounded at the apex; 

 sculpture as in the last, but the elytra rather longer. 



Length 7 lines, 



Mr. Wallace, in a note on this species, says — " flies 

 very slowly.^' 



Nekiconia. 



Caput porrectum, inter antennas transverse elevatum, 

 antice breve. Oculi subtenue granulati, ovati, trans- 

 versi, supra distantes. AnUnnm corpore longiores. 



