On a new Genus o/'^ithicldce (Coleopfera). S95 



XLVI — A new Genus of An\h]cu] 96 {Cohoptera) from the 

 Islands of Mysol and Waiqiou. By G. C. CHAMPION, 

 F.Z.S. 



Me. Blair having called attention to the systematic position 

 of tiie Australian geneva Lemodes^ Lemodinus, and Trichan- 

 anca [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xi. pp. 207-209 (1913)], 

 it is advisable to describe an allied genus found by the late 

 A. E. Wallace in the above-mentioned Malayan islands. 

 Specimens of this insect were acquired by Westwood for the 

 Hope Museum more than fifty years ago, and others have 

 also been detected amongst the Lagriids in the British 

 Museum. 



LAGEIOMORrHA, gen. nov. 



Head short, subtiiangular, broadly truncated above the 

 moderately wide neck, the e3'es sniall_, rounded, prominent, 

 inserted at a little before the base, the epistoma transverse, 

 depressed, confused with the front, and somewhat prominent, 

 the antennge stout, rapidly wadened outwards, inserted be- 

 neath a tuberculiform prominence at some distance from the 

 eyes; labrum short ; mandibles short, broad, feebly bidentate 

 at tip ; mentum strongly transverse, supported by a broad 

 gular process ; maxillary palpi stout, joint 4 strongly securi- 

 form ; terminal joint of labial palpi stout, ovate, obliquely 

 subtruncate at tip ; prothorax subcampanulate, convex, im- 

 niarginate laterally and at base, about as wide as the head; 

 scutellum transversely quadrate; elytra long, confusedly 

 punctate, the inflexed portion almost covering the meta- 

 thoracic episterna, the epipleura narrow, incomplete ; pro- 

 sternum separated from the propleura by an oblique suture; 

 anterior coxal cavities widely open behind the large, conical, 

 contiguous coxa? ; mesosternum long, very narrowly sepa- 

 rating the middle coxje ; ventral segment 1 as long as the 

 nietasternum, 2-5 comparatively short, subequal ; posterior 

 coxaj ratlier large, well separated ; legs moderately stout ; 

 tibice finely carinate towards their outer edge, above and 

 beneath, the spurs minute and scarcely visible ; tarsi with 

 their penultimate joint narrow^, deeply excavate above for 

 the reception of the terminal joint, the claws simple. 



Type, L. semiccemha. 



The Malayan insect forming the type of this genus would 

 perhaps be mistaken at first sight for a Lagriid ; but the 



