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$. The head is closely rugose, with tlu; sides rounded hi 

 front and the eye-iid<!;es rather ])ronnnent hehind. The 

 2)runotu)ii is Hnely punctured in tlie mitldle, strongly in front, 

 coarsely and densely at tlie sides. The front angles are blunt, 

 the sides gently rounded to the lateral angle, which is very 

 blunt, and gently concave to the hind angles, which are well 

 marked but not sharp. The ,scutellutn is fuiely and closely 

 punctured. The elytra are finely and rather closely punctured, 

 cxce])t in the inner dorsal region, wliich is smooth and shining. 

 The outer margins are rather narrowly opaque and sometimes 

 feebly coppery. The legs are dark. 



cJ. Coppery or metalUc grcsen above, with the head and lower 

 surface black or very dark brown, the femora and tibiae in 

 part purplish-red. The head is finely coriaceous, surrounded 

 by a sharj) ridge, nearly straight in front and widely interrupted 

 beliind. The clypeal process is long and pointed, the front 

 angles of the head are rather sharply produced outwards. 

 The pronotuiii is finely rugose at the sides and finely and closely 

 punctured in the middle. The front angles are rather bluntly 

 j)roduced, the sides are nearly straight to the middle, where 

 there is a rounded angle, and feebly concave to the hind 

 angle, which is blunt. The saitellum densely punctured. 

 The elytra very smooth and shining in the dorsal part and 

 finely coriaceous and dull at the sides and apices. There is a 

 short flattened tooth beneath the front tibia near the point of 

 insertion of the tarsus and the hind tibia ends in three sharp 

 points. The mandibles are very slender. 



Variation of the male. In small si^eeimens the mandibles 

 arc gently and uniformly curved. In large ones they are 

 very strongly curved just beyond the base and then nearly 

 straight. In the smallest examples they are irregularly 

 to(jthed internally from near the base to beyond the middle 

 and there is a small tooth beneath near the tip. In larger 

 males the first and last teeth of the internal series persist and 

 the intervenuig ones are obsolete. The basal tooth is fiat, 

 more or less bilobed and directed backwards. Another short 

 sliarp tooth aj)])ears beneath the mandible near the base. In 

 large specimens the manditjles are very strongly forked at 

 the end and the teeth are small. 



^. Length (with mandibles) , 38-70 nun. ; (without mandibles) 

 29-^7 mm. ; breadth, 1 1-5-19 nun. 



$. Length, 30-32 mm. ; breadth, 12-5-13 mm. 



Darjeelincj Distr. : Kurseong, 5000 ft. (A'. Annandale, 

 Sept.) ; Kurseong, 6000 ft. [E. A. D'Abreu, July) ; Mangpu 

 (E. T. Atkinson) ; Gopaldhara, Rungbong Valley { If. A'. 

 Webb) ; Pedong (L. Durel) ; Ghoom, 7000 ft. (-S'. Kemp). 



Type in the Hope Dept., Oxfoi-d University Museum ; 

 also that of L. nigripes. 



