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X. Neiv genera and species of Languriidffi. By the 

 Eev. W. W. Fowler, M.A., F.L.S. 



[Eead April 7th, 1886.] 



Plate I. 



The following descriptions of new genera and species of 

 Lamjunidce are the result of a study of the species in 

 the following collections: — 1st, the collection of Mr. 

 Crotch, kindly lent me for the purpose by the University 

 of Cambridge ; 2nd, the collection made by Mr. Lewis in 

 Ceylon, chiefly interesting as being made up almost 

 entirely of the Cladoxenoid forms ; 3rd, Mr. Gorham's 

 collection ; and 4th, the British Museum collection. I 

 have lately been arranging the collection of the group 

 in the Brussels Museum, at the request of M. Prudhomme 

 de Borre, and have added one or two notes on the species 

 therein contained. 



Before, however, proceeding to the descriptive part of 

 the paper there are one or two points on which perhaps 

 it will be well to say a few words. In the first place 

 exception may be taken to the use of the term " Lmuju- 

 riidce'' : as far as I know it has only been used by myself 

 and Mr. Lewis, who published a very valuable paper 

 " On Japanese Languriidce " in the ' Journal of the 

 Linnean Society.' As a matter of fact the group has 

 not yet been formally raised to the rank of a family, and 

 is usually classed with the Erotylidce. In the paper 

 referred to Mr. Lewis alludes at length to the habits of 

 Languria in the larval state, as described by Professor 

 Comstock, and argues from these that the group is con- 

 nected rather with the Chrysomclidce than with either the 

 Erotijlidce or the Endomychidce. Mr. Lewis's own 

 observations in Eastern Asia led him to place them near 

 the latter of these families, but he afterwards says : — 

 " I think we must, after reading Prof. Comstock's paper, 

 look at the Languriidce as a — comparatively speaking — 

 recent type of Coleoptera, nearer to the C]trysomeUd<i' 

 than to the Erotylidce, which has greatly multiplied its 



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