I9i5«] F. H. Gravely : Coleoptera, IX. 531 



The right mandible is laminar in front of the molar tooth. It 

 is faintl}^ bifid at the tip, and has a well-marked dorsal tooth above 

 the hairy and ventrally directed anterior end of the mandible-sac. 

 The left mandible resembles the right in shape, but is perhaps a 

 little more distinctly bifid at the apex and has the dorsal too.th less 

 distinct. 



The lacina of the maxilla is slender; the galea is about 2^ 

 times as broad and extends somewhat further forwards; the 

 terminal bristles are scarcely as stout on the former as on the latter; 

 both bear a dorsal row of long hairs, the former almost along the 

 inner edge, the latter obliquely across the surface. The three 

 proximal joints of the palp are rather short and are together about 

 equal in length to the broader terminal joint, which is more or 

 less barrel-shaped but is obliquely truncate distally. 



The lahrum is short and very broad ; its palps resemble those 

 of the maxilla, but have one joint less and have the terminal joint 

 somewhat slenderer and vertically truncate. 



The mentum is transverse, with a pair of lateral horns directed 

 obliquel}^ forwards. 



The legs are yellowish; all the femora are somewhat swollen. 

 The tibiae are broader at their distal than at their proximal ends. 

 The tarsi are finely spinulose beneath. 



Leptoscapha lignicola, n. sp. 

 (Plate xliv, fig. 12.) 



Kobo, Abor Country, 400 ft., 8-xii-ii. One specimen found 

 in rotten wood. 



A somewhat more elliptical and more uniformly coloured insect 

 than the last; head and pronotum reddish, the posterior margin 

 of the latter tinged with black ; elytra blackish with a reddish tinge 

 in the position of the yellow band of the preceding species and less 

 definitely behind this. Length 4*0 mm. 



The head and pronotum somewhat resemble those of the pre- 

 ceding species, but the latter is broader in proportion to its length, 

 especially behind, and there are some differences in detail as will 

 be seen on comparing figures 12 and 13 (pi. xliv). 



The elytra are almost parallel sided— more so than in L. spisst- 

 comis, but less so than in L. pulchra ; they are distinctly broader 

 than in L. pulchra. 



The lower surface of the body is very finely and almost uni- 

 formly punctured ; otherwise it resembles that of L. spissicornis 

 and L. pulchra. 



The antennae and legs resemble those of L. pulchella in 

 structure, but are uniformly brownish in colour. 



Lyprops curticollis, Fairm. 

 One specimen was collected by Mr. W. K. Webb at Gopaldhara, 

 Rungbong Valley, Darjeeling District, who passed it on to Mr. 

 Stevens. It is recorded in Gebien's Catalogue from " India." 



