56 Mr. C. J. Gahan on new Species of Longicornia 



Black ; with a thin ashy grey pubescence above and a 

 denser and somewhat darker pubescence underneath. Pro- 

 thorax with four distinct transverse grooves — two anteriorly 

 and two posteriorly ; with two large tomentose luteous spots, 

 which, united anteriorly, are separated behind by a smooth, 

 glossy, rounded, and little raised tubercle occupying the 

 middle of the disk ; with a smaller, somewhat flattened, dull 

 black tubercle at the antero- lateral angle of each spot. Scu- 

 tellum with a white tomentum. Elytra each with six large 

 and one or two very small tomentose white spots ; the base 

 covered with large and closely crowded granulations, which 

 extend along the middle of the disk to less than a fourth of 

 the length of the elytra and along the sides to nearly half 

 their length ; the shoulders each armed with a small and 

 rather blunt tooth ; the apices of the elytra somewhat sinu- 

 ately truncate, rounded externally, dentate at the suture. 

 Pubescence of the elytra denser along a broad sutural and 

 marginal band. Body underneath with a broad white band 

 on each side, which extends uninterruptedly from behind the 

 eye up to the middle of the last abdominal segment. An- 

 tennas black, with the first four joints smooth, glossy, and 

 having traces of a faint greyish pubescence ; with the re- 

 maining joints dull brownish black. 



This very distinct species I have pleasure in naming after 

 Mr. Neervoort van de Poll, to whom I am indebted not only 

 for aid derived from his published contributions to the subject 

 of the genus Batocera, but also for personal help in deter- 

 mining the species of this genus in the British Museum col- 

 lection. 



Cacia signata, n. sp. 



Cinereo-pubescens ; prothorace supra utrinque mgro-bivittato ; ely- 



tris nigro-maculatis et pone medium nigro-subfasciatis. 

 Long. 14 mm. 



Ilab. Ceylon. 



With an ashy pubescence. Prothorax above with two dull 

 black vittas on each side, with these vittas slightly irregular 

 in outline and for part of their extent united. Elytra with a 

 small black spot on each side of the scutellum, a spot on each 

 a little behind the middle of the base, a large plagiate spot on 

 each side below the shoulder, witli a common sutural spot 

 just in front of the middle, this spot connected behind with a 

 kind of zigzag black fascia, formed by a couple of irregular 

 spots on each elytron ; with two black spots on each near the 

 apex. Body underneath ashy pubescent, with glabrous glossy 



