56 CATALOGUE OF 



Asia. 



9. Melucha notatipes. 



Mas. Testacea ; caput nigro late bivittatum ; antenna? nigra, cnrpore 

 breviores ; prothorax nigro quadrivitlatus, laleribus nigro spinvsis, 

 angulis posticis acutis prominulis ; scutelli discus niger ; pectus 

 nigro subtuberculatus ; abdominis discus piceus, callis duobus 

 testaceis transversis nigro marginatis ; femora nigro tubercnlata ; 

 femora postica incrassata, fascia lata apicibusque nigris ; tibice 

 postica intus nigra testaceo tristrigata, subtus dilalato et biangulala, 

 extus nigro marginala el bifasciata ; alee antica nigro triviltata. 



Male. Testaceous. Head with two broad black stripes. Eyes 

 prominent. Antenna} black, shorler than the body; joints from the first to 

 the third successively decreasing in length. Prothorax depressed in the 

 fore part ; four black stripes; inner pair interrupted before the middle, not 

 extending to tbe fore border; outer pair irregular; sides nearly straight, 

 armed with short black spines ; hind angles prominent, each with an acute 

 slender spine. Scutellum with a black disk. Pectus with a few black 

 tubercles of various size. Abdomen with a piceous dorsal disk; fourth and 

 fifth segments with a transverse testaceous black-bordered callus on each. 

 Femora with some black tubercles and with a subapical black spine on the 

 under side. Hind femora incrassated, shorter than the abdomen, with a 

 broad black band and with black tips. Hind tibiae shorter than the hind 

 femora, dilated and forming two angles beneath; inner side black, with 

 three testaceous streaks, of which the first is basal, the second near the 

 base and the third apical ; outer side mostly bordered with black, with two 

 irregular black bands. Fore wings with three black stripes. Length of 

 the body 8£ lines. 



The wings in the specimen described are rudimentary. 



a. Siam. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



Eastern Archipelago. 



10. Melucha octolineata. 



Mas. Testacea, lomentosa, sat gracilis; antenna nigra, corpori aqui- 

 longa, articulo Ao ferrugineo \o longiore ; prothorax fuscescente 

 octolineatus, angulis posticis oblusis ; scutellum fuscescente bi- 

 vittatum ; femora postica subincrassata ; tibia postica supra valde 

 dilatata, subtus subdilulata et subangulala ; corium fuscescente 

 venosum; membrana aneo-cinerea . 



Male. Testaceous, tomentose, rather slender. Rostrum black ; first 

 and fourth joints longer than the second and third. Antennae black, as 

 long as the body; joints from the first to the third successively decreasing 

 in length ; fourth ferruginous, longer than the first. Prothorax with eight 

 brownish stripes ; a slight transverse ridge near the hind border; hind part 

 forming an obtuse and sharply-defined angle on each side. Scutellum 

 with two brownish converging and connected stripes. Femora beneath 



