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ovate. Thorax transverse, subcylindrical in front, gibbous and strongly 
tuberculate on the disk, lateral border distinct and strongly produced, its 
outer edge sometimes minutely toothed. Elytra much broader than the 
thorax, their sides subparallel, indistinctly narrowed behind, their sur- 
face rugose-punctate, covered with adpressed curved scales, intermixed 
with which are tufts of suberect similar scales. Legs robust; thighs 
armed beneath with a short stout tooth ; t2bve curved ; claws bifid. Pro- 
sternum transverse quadrate, separated from the episternum by a deep 
groove ; episternum scapulariform. Mesosternum short, transverse, its 
apex concave. 
Type, Aulacolepis Mouhoti, Baly. Siam. 
A second species is found in Sumatra. This genus is strikingly 
different in habit from the rest of the tribe, and, with the strongly 
produced lateral border of its thorax, appears at first sight to belong 
to a different group ; in all its other characters, however, it agrees so 
closely with the Adovine that I have retained it amongst them, 
considering it as a transition form, and placing it at the end of the 
other genera. 
Aulacolepis Mouhoti, Baly. 
A, broadly oblong, subcylindrical, black, subnitidous, closely covered with 
_ large, curved, concave, fulvo-fuscous scales; disk of thorax elevated into 
two large parallel conical tubercles; intermixed with the fulvo-fuscous 
scales on the elytra are (more particularly towards their apex) small 
patches of numerous black or white similar scales ; each elytron is also 
furnished on the disk with about seven tufts of rigid, erect, black scales. 
—Long 38 lin. 
Hab. Siam. Collected by the late M. Mouhot. 
Head short, subrotundate ; antennee scarcely exceeding the thorax in 
length, fusco-fulvous. Thorax a third broader than long, the posterior 
four-fifths of the lateral border strongly produced, the anterior fifth 
ill-defined, the outer edge armed with minute teeth; surface of disk 
deeply punctured, two small patches of scales on the anterior border, 
together with a somewhat longer patch immediately behind each of the 
conical protuberances on the disk, black. Elytra deeply punctured. 
(To be continued. ] 
XIV.— Catalogue of Halticide ; being a continuation of the British 
Museum Catalogue, Part i. 1860. By the Rev. Hamuzr Crarx, 
MeA.,.F.LS8. 
A MERE dry list of names seems but meagre fare to offer to the 
readers of the ‘Journal of Entomology,’ especially if the subject is 
one which hitherto has attracted, alas! but little attention, and the 
names themselves are for the most part MS. Let me explain, 
