1866.] MR. F. P. PASCOE ON THE COLEOPTERA OF PENANG. 507 



punctured ; prothorax closely punctured, transverse, broader than 

 the head, its sides rounded, and only very imperfectly margined, the 

 disk with a median elevated longitudinal line not extending to the 

 apex or base ; scutellum small, subtriangular ; elytra much broader 

 than the prothorax, closely punctured, the punctures larger than 

 elsewhere, and occasionally confluent, two slightly elevated longitu- 

 dinal lines on each ; body beneath brown ; legs brownish ferrugi- 

 nous, slightly hairy ; antennae about half as long as the body in the 

 female, in the male probably longer than the body, as in P. anten- 

 natus, Gyll. (P. inconspicuus, W. W. Saund.). 



Philus was referred by Mr. Saunders to the Prionidce, near Erio- 

 derus and Tragosoma ; but I think it is more correctly placed by M. 

 J. Thomson with the true Lepturince, near Centrodera and Vesperus. 

 The marginal costa, marking the separation of the prothoracic pleurae 

 from the pronotum, one of the most important characters of the 

 Prionidce, is almost obliterated in the species just described, and, 

 according to M. Thomson, there is not the least trace of it in another 

 species from Northern Iudia described by him (P. globulicollis) . 

 Philus antennatus, Gyll. (Schon. Ins. App. p. 280), is an old Chi- 

 nese species, with which Mr. Saunders's P. inconspicuus is said to be 

 identical. 



Stenoderinje. 

 Dejanira. 



Dejanira, J. Thomson, Syst. Ceramb. p. 134. 



Dejanira quadripunctata, J. Thomson, I.e. 



M. Thomson's specimen of this fine Longicorn and one in my 

 own collection are from Java. The antennae of the female are only 

 about two-thirds the length of the body. 



Dejanira biapiculata. 



D. rufo-ochracea ; elytris in medio oblique fulvo maculatis, apice 

 singulis biapiculatis. 



Reddish ochraceous ; head and prothorax covered with a rich 

 golden-yellow silky pubescence, the vertex with a short keel between 

 the eyes, and a few punctures ; spines of the prothorax moderately 

 produced, triangular, the disk irregular, with two antemedian sub- 

 approximate tubercles ; scutellum black, narrow, rounded behind, 

 slightly grooved in the middle ; elytra rather narrow, finely punc- 

 tured, covered with a short dense pubescence, an oblique yellowish 

 patch on each towards the outer side, the apices shortly biapiculate ; 

 body beneath with a delicate yellowish pubescence ; legs slender ; 

 antennae reddish ochraceous ; eyes black. Length 7 lines. 



There are three specimens, or perhaps species, in Mr. Lamb's 

 collection, all differing in the prothorax, but otherwise, allowing for 

 the usual differences in sex and size, apparently identical. It would 

 be necessary to examine a larger series before this can be decided ; 

 and therefore I will only mention here that one of the three has a 



