94 THE REV. F. W. HOPE’S CHARACTERS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF 
subacuminata, versus apicem obliqué truncata, fortissimé punctata, suturé lineisque 
elevatis, linea tertiad ad medium disci descendente tuberculoque cum linea secunda 
connexa. Corpus subtis violaceum. Femora tibieque nigro-cyanee. Tarsi un- 
guesque brunneo-picel. 
A common opinion prevails among entomologists, that the typical Silphide are rare 
in warm countries. My own collection contains, however, several African and tropical 
species. Necrophagus Nepalensis, Hope, and Silpha melanaria, Hj., are from India ; as 
is also Necrodes osculans, Vig. 
I may add, that I have recently received from Japan two species of Silpha, one of 
which I have named, from its locality, Silpha Japonica, and the other in honour of the 
celebrated Dr. Siebold. 
Fam. Enerpa, MacLeay. 
Genus. Laneuria, Lat. 
LANGURIA CYANEA. 
Tab. XIII. Fig. 4. 
Lang. cyanea ; antennis piceis ; elytris punctato-striatis. 
Long. corporis 3 lin. ; lat. 1. 
Hab. in agro Nepalensi. 
Mus. Hope. 
Descr. Caput ruga transversa inter oculos impressum. Antenne picee, long, articulis 
tribus ultimis dilatatis. Thoraz glaber, subtilissimé punctatus, posticé contractus. 
Elytra punctato-striata, cyanea. Corpus infra concolor. Pedes elongati. Tarsi 
subtis fusci, flavo-pubescentes. 
This insect recedes from the type of Languria, and will probably form at some future 
period a subgenus with other Indian species. The antenne are long, with a slightly 
incrassated club of three joints only ; the legs are comparatively long; the tarsi are 
narrow ; and the posterior part of the thorax is contracted: characters by which it 
differs from the usual form of Languria. 
The Brazilian species of this genus appear also to form another subgenus. 
