368 Mr. Waterhouse on Coleoptera of Madagascar. 



before the apex, indicating a twelfth joint ; the female has this 

 same joint shorter and simple. The male organ is oblong, broad 

 and flat. ,The female ovipositor is elongate, acuminate at the 

 apex. 



LAMIID^. 



Leucograpltus * variegatus, n. sp. 



Crassus, ater, velutinus, sabuloso-variegatus ; elytris tiiber- 

 CLilis obtusis duobiis juxta scutellum humerisque nitidis. Long. 

 8-101 lin. 



Build somewhat that of Enmimetes, but broader and more 

 robust. Head black, with a fine sandy line between the 

 antennas, and an oblique one behind each eye. Thorax with a 

 moderately strong tubercle at the side, a small one on each side 

 of the disc, black, with a sandy stripe in the middle and a 

 broader one on each side of the disc, there are also a few irregu- 

 lar spots. Elytra two-fifths broader than the thorax, gently 

 narrowed posteriorly, slightly flattened on the back, obtuse at 

 the apex, with two approximate tubercles close to the scutellum, 

 slightly elevated at the shoulders, densely clothed with sandy 

 tomentum, irregularly dotted with black, with an irregular black 

 patch on each side behind the middle (dotted with sandy), a 

 flexuous black band beyond this, and a black spot just before 

 the apex. Antenna; and legs sandy-white, the apices of the 

 third to eleventh joints of the antenna^ the inside of the femora, 

 the apex of the tibia;, the apex of the second and fourth joints 

 of the tarsi and the entire third joint black. Body beneath 

 black, dotted at the sides with sandy-white. 



I place this species provisionally in tlie genus Lfn^agrajiliHS, 

 but I would point out that the antenna; differ in being simple, 

 not fringed at the apex, the joints gradually diminishing towards 

 the apex. 



The male has the fifth segment of the abdomen truncate at 

 the apex. The female has this segment rather deeply impressed 

 at the apex. 



Waterhouse, Cistula Entomolog-ica, ii, p. 295 (June, 1878). 



