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to be varieties ; and that to associate other examples from other 

 Hills in India with these will prove a very difficult task. I de- 

 sire only to arrive at the truth, and confess the doubt I feel in 

 differing from an acknowledged authority, but I feel at present 

 quite unrepentant. 



Laeertobelus, genus novum. 



Oculi tenuiler reticulata Episloma prominulum quasi tubuliferum. 

 Corpus subulatum, prothorace oblongo, antice valde convexo, poslice 

 depressiusculo striolis basalibus nullis, lateribus marginatis , pro- 

 sternum ad apice m truncation. Elytra apicem versus multo angu- 

 stata apice ipso sublruncalo, minute denticulato , extus mucronato, 

 stria hu 'iiterali ad basini valde impressa. Lineis ubdominalibus 

 nullis. 



Pedes longi, anterioribus praesertim perlongis (maris) femoribus 

 anticis intus dente parvo acuto et carinulis duabus infra denlem 

 eleuatis, infer quas tibia tennis recepta est. Antennae lenues haud 

 longae, quam capile thoraceque breviores, arliculis sex ullimis gra- 

 datim crassioriljus, arliculo tertio '/nam quarto baud multo longiore. 

 Tarsis haud dilatatis, subtus spongiosis haud ciliutis. 



I propose this name for a very extraordinary form of Lan- 

 guriides. It is the only instance yet known to me in that sub- 

 family in which the front legs are toothed. These front legs are 

 also of extraordinary length , bringing the genus near Oxglan- 

 guria and Fatua. The structure of the epistome is also wholly 

 unique in the Languriides for in the male it is not only finely 

 excised but compressed and raised so as to form a sort of tubular 

 rostrum. 



1. Lacertobelus dentipes, n. sp. 



Elongatus , elgtris postice valde attenuai is , subulatis; saturate 

 rufus, superne nigro-viridis vel nigro-caeruleus , antennis pedi- 

 busque nigris , his basi, illis articulis sex basalibus rufis , capite 

 antice rufo , crebre ac fortiter , prothorace puree minute punctatis; 

 elgtris fortiter purictato-striatis, stria humerali ad basim valde im- 

 pressa, corpore subtus fere laevi. — Long. 8-9 mill. </. 9. 



