On a neio Genus of Lamellicorn Beetles. 431 



Skull and teeth as described above. 



Dimensions of the type : — ■ 



Head and body 320 nun. ; tail 130 ; bind foot 65 ; 

 ear 25. 



Skull : greatest length 84"5; condylo-basal length 81 ; 

 zygomatic breadth 27; nasals, length 37, breadth at middle 3*4, 

 breadth behind 5 ; breadth of muzzle at p l 6*5 ; interorbital 

 breadth 15'3; intertemporal breadth 14; palatal length 52; 

 palatine foramina 9*3 ; posterior palatine vacuities 75 ; front 

 of canine to back of m 3 35, three anterior molariform teeth 10'5 ; 

 transverse diameter of m 3 2'6. 



Hab. as above. 



Type. Adult male. B.M. no. 20. 7. 26. 34. Original 

 number 21. Collected February 1920. 



This mountain bandicoot is a very striking and interesting 

 animal, widely different from any previously known form. 

 It is at once recognizable by its crisp but not spinous fur and 

 its extraordinarily long slender muzzle. 1 have much pleasure 

 in connecting with it the name of the Pratt brothers, .whose 

 expedition has resulted in its discovery. 



XLVIII. — A remarkable new Genus of Lamellicorn Beetles. 

 By Gilbert J. Akkow, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



The exceedingly remarkable little beetle here described was 

 found in September 1897 by the French missionary, Father 

 Cardom at Chota Nagporc, in Bengal, and has lately been 

 sent to me for investigation by M. Rene Oberthur. It was 

 probably found in a termite nest, the curious termitophilous 

 Chcetopisihes fulvuSj Westw., having been taken at the same 

 time. While exhibiting certain characteristics of both the 

 Coprinse and Aphodiina3, it is impossible to refer it to either, 

 and it appears inevitable to regard it as the type of a new 

 subfamily (to be called Aphodiocoprinse). Although its 

 general conformation and especially the widely separated 

 middle coxa} appear to indicate the Coprinse, the fact that 

 the interval between the coxae is formed by the mesosternum 

 and not the metasternum, the double spurs to the hind tibia, 

 the corneous mandibles and strange mouth-structure exclude 

 it from that group. The mouth-structure, as well as the 

 distant middle coxw, equally excludes it from the Aphodiince. 



