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the base with a deep sinuate groove; surface iinpunctate; scu- 

 tellura slightly broader than long, its apex rounded ; elytra much 

 wider at the base than the thorax , obsoletely depressed below 

 the base , deeply punctate-striate , the interstices longitudinally 

 costate; shoulders prominent, the costa springing from it joined 

 to the preceeding one before the middle; underside and legs 

 testaceous. 



Sumatra, Mt. Singalang, July (0. Bcccari). 



The genus Liprus was established by Motschulsky on an 

 insect from Japan, having somewhat the appearance of a species 

 of Lema. The characters of the genus have as far as I am 

 aware never been properly published; later another species also 

 from Japan belonging to this genus has been described by Baly. 

 It is in n)y opinion very ditficult to assign the right place for 

 this curious form of a Haltica. An examination of M.'' "Baly's 

 species prooves the insect to have open anterior coxal cavities 

 and but very moderately incrassate posterior femora; the tho- 

 racic groove extends entirely across the disk and is continued 

 at the sides, the margin of the thorax being indistinct below 

 the middle; the elytra are of a construction totally at variance 

 with the rest of the Uallicidae, in as far as the sides from the 

 shoulders are defiexed perpendicularly, so as to be invisible from 

 above, their epipleurae are extremely narrow and might almost 

 be described as wanting; the prosternum is very narrow the 

 anterior coxae being almost contiguous; as far as I am able to 

 see, the tibiae seem to be unarmed; the claws are appondiculato; 

 the shape of the head and the insertion of the antennae is en- 

 tirely that of a species belonging to the Hallicinae. 



The insect dc^scribed here differs notably from the allied species 

 in the shape of its thorax which is that of a true Lcma for 

 which the insect might easily be mistaken. In all other i-espects 

 it agrees however with Liprus. There is no doubt that a special 

 group or division re(juired Ibi" the reception of these curiously 

 structured species. 



