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L^LIDA. 



Caput infra modice dilatatum, supra contractum ; apice clypei 

 sinuato ; tuberibus antenniferis contiguis, erectis. Oculi 

 sat parvi. Antennce longissimae, lineares ; scapo cylindrico, 

 ad medium prothoracis vix attingente ; articulo tertio fere 

 triple longiore ; cseteris sequalibus, duobus ultimis bre- 

 vioribus exceptis. Prothorax sub-cylindricus, lateraliter 

 dente parvo armatus. Elytra oblonga, lateribus modice ro- 

 tundatis, apicibus truncatis, angulo exteriori producto. Pedes 

 brevissimi ; tarsi antici dilatati. Prosternum muticum. Me- 

 sosternum elevatum, antice paulo productum. Abdomen seg- 

 mentis tribus intermediis brevioribus. 



Lcellda antennata. (PI. XV. fig. 1.) 



L. fusca, tomentosa ; prothorace elytrisque flavido-vittatis ; 

 antennis articulo ultimo (apice excepto) niveo. 



Hab. — Singapore. 



Dark brown, covered with a roughish tomentum varied with 

 stripes of pale lemon-yellow ; head whitish in front, with a yellow 

 patch behind the eye ; prothorax about equal in length and 

 breadth, finely punctured, with two stripes on the disk and a 

 broader one on each side below the lateral tooth ; scutellum 

 transverse, yellow ; elytra considerably broader than the pro- 

 thorax at the base, more coarsely punctured, each with three 

 stripes, the outer and inner meeting at the apex ; antennae nearly 

 four times as long as the body, brown, the apex of the tenth 

 and the whole of the last joint except the apex closely covered 

 with longish snowy-white silky hairs ; body beneath and legs 

 with a delicate grey pile, sides of the sterna and abdomen with 

 a broad whitish stripe. 



Length 3| lines. 



Lamiin.e. 

 After a careful examination I have come to the conclusion that no 

 sufficient differentiation can be made between Lamiince, Monocha- 

 mince and Gwomint©, and that to obtain anything like a satisfactory 

 set of characters it would be necessary to form a large number of 

 groups, or, as we would call them for the sake of uniformity, 

 '* sub-families." It may seem a violation of all our ordinary ideas 

 of natural affinity to place Gnoma with Pelrognatha, Cylindre- 

 'povius with Tragocephala, or Lamia with Geratiia, yet such are the 

 extreme varieties of form and so graduated the characters by 



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