Mr. Waterhouse o)i Ilemp/um Hopei. QJ 



XIV. Description of a new Species of Longicor)i Beetle from 

 the East Indies. By G. R. Waterhouse, Esq., late 

 Curator of the Entomological Society. 



[Read March 3, 1834.] 



Fam. PRIONID.E. 

 Genus Rempha'n. 

 Caput longius quam latum : mandibulse promiuentes bidentatae. 

 Labrum transversum, parte anterior! emarginatum. Labium 

 minutum, apice bilobatum. Palpi maxillares modici, 4-articu- 

 lati; articulo primo brevi, sequentibus fer^ sequalibus. Palpi 

 labiates 3-articulati ; articulo primo brevi, secundo elongato ; 

 tertio modico, apice truncate. Antenna; filiformes, 11-articu- 

 latse ; articulo primo crasso, secundo brevi, tertio primo aequanti, 

 posticeque spinis ai'mato ; articuli septem sequentes fere sequa- 

 les, graciles ; articulo apicali cseteris longiori. 

 Thorax subquadratus, marginibus lateralibus spinis armatis. Ely- 

 tra subcoriacea. Pedes modici, femora tibiaeque triplici serie 

 spinarum armata. 

 Abdomen subdepressum. 



Species 1. Remphan Hopei. 

 Plate VIII. fig. 1. 



Obscure niger ; thoracis disco utrinque macula triangulari nitida- 

 que omato ; elytris pallide brunneis. 



Habitat in India Orientali circa Singapore. — Long, capitis cum 

 mandibulis lin. 11. — Long, corporis 2 unc. 11. lin. 



Description. — Obscure black. Head obovate, obscurely rugose 

 throughout, with an indistinct ochreous pubescence ; a longi- 

 tudinal line dividing the head into two equal parts, reaching 

 from the base to the apex, and which is depressed between the 

 eyes, and slightly elevated posteriorly. Eyes large. Mandi- 

 bles long and prominent, bidentate internally. Thorax trans- 

 verse quadrangular, and narrower anteriorly, the sides and an- 

 terior angles thickly set with spines, a triangular glossy patch 

 on each side of the disc, and another which is smaller between 

 that and the lateral margin; also a glossy rugose ridge reach- 

 ing from this last to the posterior angles of the thorax ; at the 

 anterior angle of the first-mentioned triangular patch is a shal- 



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