306 On a new Genns of A.\\i\\\c\i\'8& [Coleoptera). 



widely open anterior coxal cavities and other cliaracterfs 

 bring- it near Lemodes^ Boh., and Trichammca, Blackb., 

 recently referred hy Blair to the Aiithicida^. The carinate 

 tibise and the greatly widened onter jo nts of the antennae 

 separate Lagriomorpha from both these genera, the general 

 facies, too, being very different. 



Lagriomorpha semicceridea^ sp. n. 



Elongate, depressed^ a little widened posteriorly, especially 

 in t$ , subopaqne, the elytra and under surface shining, finely 

 pnbescent ; ochraceous or rufo-testaceous, the elytra with 

 about the apical two-thirds metallic blue, tlie antennal joints 

 from 4-6 onward (the rufescent tip of II excepted) black 

 and densely pubescent, the posterior legs with the knees, 

 tibise, and first tarsal joint (and in one specimen the corre- 

 sponding portions of the intermediate legs also) sometimes 

 more or less infuscate, the abdomen in great part piceous. 

 Head closely, shallowly punctate ; antennae moderately long, 

 joint 3 slightly longer than 2, 4-11 more elongate, becoming 

 rapidly wider, 8-10 very broad, triangular, 11 acuminate- 

 ovate, much longer than 10, constricted at the middle ; 

 joint 4 of maxillary palpi broader in (^ than in ? . Pro- 

 thorax about as long as broad, rounded at the sides, obliquely 

 constricted before the base, closely, shallowly punctate, the 

 interspaces alutaceous. Elytra broader than the prothorax, 

 more elongate in ? than in S > slightly depressed below the 

 base, closely, rather coarsely, confusedly punctate. Beneath 

 closely, minutely punctate, with scattered larger punctures 

 intermixed. 



Length 5^-8, breadth 1^-2^ ram. (c? ? ). 

 Hah. Mysol and Waigiou {A. R. Wallace). 

 Described from four females and two males, two of tlie 

 former, from Mysol, belonging to the British Museum {ex 

 coll. Pascoe), the others purchased by the Oxford Museum in 

 1862 or 1863, one only of them (a r?) being from Waigiou. 

 The males (one froai each island) are smaller and less 

 elongate than the females, and both of them have an 

 indication of a faint, transverse or curved, pallid fascia on the 

 disc of each elytron at about one-third or one-fourth from 

 the apex. 



