Mr. Samiders's Descriptions of new Coleopterous Insects. 149 



1 have much satisfaction in naming this splendid insect (which 

 formed one of the chief ornaments of the cabinet of my lamented 

 friend A. H. Haworth, Esq.,) in honour of its present possessor, 

 Thomas Norris, Esq., of Ridvales, Bury, Lancashire, M.E.S. 



In the majority of its characters it most nearly approaches the 

 Lamia ornata of Olivier, which with several other species from 

 Sierra Leone and Central Africa, including the Lamia Crux niger, 

 Hope, and a beautiful species recently brought home by the 

 Niger expedition, constitute a small subgeneric group distinguished 

 by their geographical range, the exquisite brilliancy of their colours, 

 the very prominent prosternum, and the strongly toothed mandibles, 

 at least in one sex. 



The insect above described however, although agreeing in the 

 first two particulars, is at once sectionally distinguished by the very 

 great length of the terminal joint of the antennce, the much less 

 prominent prosternum, and the unarmed mandibles. As however 

 the distribution of the Longicornes is at present in the course of 

 publication by one of the most celebrated French entomologists, I 

 shall on the present occasion content myself with pointing out the 

 characters above detailed. 



P.S. Since this memoir was read M. Serville has completed his 

 revision of the longicorn beetles without proposing a distinct genus 

 or subgenus for L. ornata, regalis, &c. M. Percheron has however 

 more recently proposed the genus Sternotomis for these species. 

 Gen. lies Ins. Col. pi. 16. 



XXXII. Descriptions of so7ne new Species of Coleopterous 

 Insects lately received from Monte Video, By S. S. 

 Saunders, Esq., M.E.S. 



[Read October 6th, 1834.] 



Fam. EwGiDiE, MacLeay. 



Genus Languria, Lat. 



Languria latipes. Plate XIV. fig. 1, 



Elongata, rufo-picea, supra viridi-cuprea, nitida, elytris obsolete 

 punctato-striatis, ad apicem decem-dentatis, tarsisque anticis vald^ 

 dilatatis. 



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