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Black, with a delicate clear brownish-grey pubescence ; head 

 very rough in front and between the eyes ; prothorax with nume- 

 rous small sharply-defined elevations ; scutellum semicircular ; 

 elytra granulate at the base, a small indistinct brown spot at the 

 end of each basal crest, and a very large clear brown patch on each 

 side posteriorly ; body beneath with a scanty brownish pubescence ; 

 legs and antennae black, nearly glabrous. 



Length 14 lines. 



Leprodera. 

 . Leprodera, J. Thomson, Arch. Ent. i. 177. 

 Caput magnum, infra oculos dilatatum, clypeo late sinuato ; 

 tuberibus antenniferis validis. Oculi mediocres, lobo inferiori 

 transverso. ^nieHnce elongatae ; scapo robusto, sub-cylindrico, 

 apice saepe producto, valde cicatricoso; articulo tertio scapo 

 longiore, aliquando plumoso ; sequentibus gradatim decrescen- 

 tibus, ultimo ( ^ ) prsecedente longiori. Prothorax supra 

 transversim plicatus, utrinque valde spinosus. Elytra am- 

 pliata, basi baud cristata, apicibus rotundatis. Pedes elongati, 

 antici ( ^ ) longiores ; femora sub-incrassata ; t'lhicB an- 

 ticse intus dentatae ; tarsi sub-aequales. Prosternum simplex 

 vel paulo elevatum. Mesosternum dentatum. 

 Leprodera plagiata, Thorns., on account of its narrower head 

 and oblique eyes, scarcely enters into this genus as it is here 

 defined, yet these are the characters which principally cut it off 

 from Epicedia ; as a secondary character it may be mentioned 

 that the elytra are without basal crests, and therefore on the 

 whole it will better fit into the present genus. All the species have a 

 dark brown or blackish derm, uniformly covered with a greyish or 

 fulvous-grey pubescence, and the brown bands and spots are com- 

 posed of a very dense cloth-like pubescence without any gloss. 



Leprodera equestris. (PI. XIV. fig. 6.) 

 (?) Leprodera elongate, J. Thomson, Arch. Ent. i. 177. 

 L. fulvescens ; prothorace transversim lineato ; elytris fascia 

 lata ante medium et plaga magna laterali fuscis, fulvido- 

 marginatis ; antennis laevigatis, articulo tertio apice subtus 

 plumoso. 

 Hab. — Penang, Sarawak. 



Pubescence greyish-fulvous ; head finely punctured (not granu- 

 lated as in L. elongata, according to M. Thomson) ; prothorax 



