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Genus Aegopus, Fischer. 



The insect described below differs from the hitherto 

 described species of the genus in having the anterior 

 margin of the clypeus entire, and not emarginate ; it 

 agrees, however, so completely in all other characters, in- 

 cluding the spine at the apices of all the tibige, that I have 

 not hesitated in placing it in the genus. 



Argopus Haroldi. 



SubheraispliEericus, rufo-fulvus, nitidus, oculis nigris, 

 metasterno abdominisque basi piceis ; elytris profuude 

 punctatis, ca^ruleo-nigris, anguste rufo-limbatis, utrisque 

 maculis sex 1-2-2-1 dispositis flavis ornatis. 



Long. 2^ lin. 



Hab. — India. 



Head short, trigonate ; clypeus deflexed, its anterior 

 margin entire; carina broad, ovate, its medial line occupied 

 by a short longitudinal ridge ; encarpiB remote, well de- 

 fined, subquadrate. Thorax twice as broad as long ; basal 

 margin bisinuate on either side ; medial lobe slightly pro- 

 duced, obtuse ; sides distinctly margined, rounded from 

 base to apex, anterior angles subacute ; upper surface 

 smooth and shining, remotely impressed with coarse, deep 

 l^unctures. Scutellum small, trigonate. Elytra coarsely 

 and deeply pvmctured, bluish-black, each very narrowly 

 edged with rufous, and having on the disk six subrotundate, 

 flavous spots, — one at the base, two placed transversely 

 before the middle, two transversely behind the latter and 

 one subapical. Legs short, robust, all the thighs thick- 

 ened, the hinder pair scarcely thicker than the others ; 

 tibia3 curved outwardly, and thickened at the apex; two 

 hinder pairs with the outer edge deeply grooved on the 

 lower two-thirds ; edges of the groove produced on either 

 side at the lower end into a flattened tooth ; apices of all 

 the tibiaj armed with a small moveable spine ; those on 

 the hinder pair not larger than the others ; basal joint of 

 tarsus dilated. 



Genus EucYCLA. 



Corpus rotundatum, valde convexum. Caput in tho- 

 racem fere totum immersum, trigonatum ; facie perpendi- 

 culari, inter antennas elevata ; clypeo cuneiformi, postice 

 elevato, carina obsoleta ; encarpis transversis, contiguis ; 



