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PLATE XV. 
DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW LONGICORN BEETLES FROM THE INDIAN 
ARCHIPELAGO.. 
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In the magnificent collection of insects made in the Philippine 
Islands by H. Cuming, Esq., (a complete series of which, including 
all the unique species, has been secured for the British Museum), 
were contained single specimens of each of the insects repre- 
sented in the three upper figures of the accompanying plate, and 
which, from their great singularity, beauty, and rarity, will be 
deemed valuable subjects for illustration in this work. 
The first species has been described by Mr. G. R. Waterhouse 
in a paper read before the Entomological Society, under the name 
of Doxiors Curculionoides, from the extraordinary resemblance 
which it bears to a certain species of the Curculionideous genus 
Pachyrhynchus, also found by Mr.Cuming in the same country. The 
following are the characters of the genus givenby Mr. Waterhouse :— 
DOLIOPS, Waterh. 
Caput quam thorax angustius, paulo productum et postice cylindraceum, oculi reniformes, 
palpi mediocres, articulis terminalibus oblongo-ovatis, et subtruncatis. Antenne 11- 
articulate, breves et graciles, articulo 3tio perlongo et ad apicem dilatato. Thorax 
subglobosus postice constrictus. Elytra perbrevia, valde convexa humeris prominulis. 
Pedes paulo grandes, femoribus in medio sensim clavatis, tibiis latis compressis, tarsis 
brevibus latis. 
Doliops Curculionoides. Obscure viridi-zeneus, indistincte cerulescenti relucens, palpis 
nigris, autennis articulis 3tio et sequentibus griseis ad apicem nigris, capite linea alba 
longitudinaliti notato, elytris 14 guttis flavescenti—albis adspersis, maculis eodem colore 
corpus subtus ornantibus, tarsis cinereis, articulo terminali nigro. Long corp. lin. 53. 
Pl. 1a. natural size ; 1. magnified ; 1 b. mouth magnified, and seen from beneath. 
Although apparently allied to Doreadion in the short ovate form 
of the body; the form of the head, and structure of the antenne, 
legs, and particularly of the prothorax, give this genus a nearer 
relation to certain Saperde, and especially the genera Colobothea 
and Mesosa. 
COLOBOTHEA, Dejean. 
Colobothea leucospilota, Westw. pl. 15, fig. 2. Laete coerulea aureo zneoque tincta, rude 
punctata, thorace macula alba in medio marginis postici, elytris guttis 10, fascia abbrevi- 
ata angulata ante medium alteraque postica curvata ad suturam interrupta, albo-squamosis 
antennis pedibusque cyaneis; corpore subtus nigro-wneo, sterno marginibusque scg- 
mentorum abdominalium squamis albis variis, Long corp. lin, 103. 
