Longicornia Malay ana. 659 



which does not always seem to me to be of generic im- 

 portance, viz. : — the bimucronate apices of the elytra; and 

 there may also be added, the more strongly developed 

 spinous sides of the prothorax. 



Psalanta chalyheata. (PI. XXII. fig. 1.) 



Noemia chalyheata, Pascoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 509. 



P. cyaneo-chalybeata ; elytris apicibus bimucronatis. 

 Hah. — Sarawak (and Singapore) . 



Entirely bright steel-blue, with a slight grayish pile ; 

 head very finely and closely punctured, forming slight 

 corrugations behind the eyes ; prothorax with the lateral 

 angle shortly spined ; scutellum scutiform ; elytra strongly 

 seriate-punctate at the base, gradually becoming impunc- 

 tate posteriorly, each elytron with two well-marked 

 raised lines, the apices bimucronate ; body glabrous be- 

 neath; legs with scattered hairs; antennae more than 

 half as long again as the body, fringed with long hairs. 



Length 9-10 lines. 



Melegena. 



Characteres ut in Noemia, sed oculi grosse granulati, 

 elongati, transversi, leviter emarginati, supra sub- 

 approximati, pal2n maxillares articulo ultimo sub- 

 cylindrico, apice truncate, et femora clavata. 



This is a stouter form than Noemia, with shorter and 

 thicker antennae, and coarsely granulate eyes. From 

 Psalanta it is distinguished by its clavate femora. 



Melegena puhipennis. (PL XXII. fig. 4.) 



M. violacea ; an tennis pedibusque, femorum clava ex- 

 cepta, flavis; elytris pube subtilissima grisea tectis. 



Hah . — Sarawak . 



Dark violet ; head glossy blueish- violet, thickly punc- 

 tured, but behind the eyes glabrous; lip and palpi 

 yellow; prothorax finely granulate, the lateral angles 

 spined ; scutellum narrow, rounded behind ; elytra rather 

 broad at the base, gradually attenuated posteriorly, 

 covered with a short grayish and somewhat sparse 



