Oenera ami Species of Coleoptora. :VA7 



become moiv or K'ss contlutMit, inoro crowded also towanls tln» apex 

 and at the sides, borderetl, particularly on the suturf, h\ a rost- red 

 line, three lonjj-itudinal lines of the same colour on each, the niidtllc and 

 exterior extendin;; nearly to the a]»ex ; lep* rose-red, annulatcd with 

 black, the hist two tarsal joints black ; body beneath rose-red, the 

 centre of each abdominal si-f^^ment black at tiic ba'<e ; antennae with 

 the basal joint shorter than the third, black, the two first and base of 

 the remainder rose-red. Lenjrth 11 lines. 



Rather larger than N. ilioracica, Wh., to which it bears u general 

 resemblance, but distinf^uished by the comparative regularity of tlie 

 disk, and the absence! of the peculiar medio-basal fissure of the pro- 

 thorax. 



Nlphona pannosa. 



K. suban«>-ustata, grisescente tomentosa, varie^^ata ; prothoracis lateribus 

 tuberculiferis ; eh-tris baai piloso-cristatis ; tibiis anticis rectis. 



Hab. Cambodia. 



Kather narrow, the male broader, covered with a dense, very pale- 

 greyish tomentum, spotted with a darker or mouse-coloured g-rey ; 

 head rather small ; eyes and lip black ; antennae rather more than two- 

 thirds the length of the body, dark gi-ey with very pale spots ; pro- 

 thorax narrower than the el>tra, subtransverse, irregidarly tuberculate, 

 especially towards the base, the side with a few short tubercles, parti- 

 ally disposed in two rows ; scutellum transverse ; elytra broadest at the 

 shoulders, gi-adually narrowing towards the apex, irregularly costiUate 

 especially towards the. apex, coarsely punctured, the base on each side 

 wnth a short, uaiTow, erect tuft of hair, the apex subtruncate, pale 

 greyish, darker posteriorly, so as to appear as a band, the shoulder 

 sometimes dark broAvn ; legs closely covered with short hairs, pale, 

 spotted with darker grey ; abdomen hairy at the sides, with dark -grey 

 spots, the sterna reddish brown with paler spots. I^ength 8 lines. 



N. cylindrica, White, differs in its extraordinary fore tibifc, and 

 in its greatly developed lateral tubercle ; and N. Ferdinand I, Paiva, 

 in the absence of the basal crest of the elytra, «tc. In the latter 

 species the claw-joint is scarcely half the length of the three pre- 

 ceding, while in others it is as long as the rest together, — another 

 instance of the shifting characters of the Longicorns, and so far of 

 greater importance as the large claw -joint generally marks its pos- 

 sessor to be a " twig-climber," in distinction to the short-clawed 

 species, which are principally found on the fnodi-.^ of trees. 



Niphona excisa. 



N. angustata, nigra, pube grisea tecta ; prothorace profunde trisulcato ; 

 elytris postice attenuatis, apice divaricati.s, singulis fortiter emarginatis 

 Hah. Cambodia. 



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