Sectio I. Ligula menti apice inserta. 



A. Mentum non distinctum. 



Genus I. LEPTISPA. Details, Tab. I. Fig. 1. 



Leptomorplia, {CJicvr. MSS.) Germ. Faun. Ins. Eur, fasc. xxii. t. 10 

 (nomen praeoccupatum). 



Antennce (fig. 1 a) capite cum thorace vix longiores, robusta?, sub- 



incrassatae, articulo primo incrassato et secundo longiori, ssepe 



compresso, apice truncate, secundo submonilifomii, tcrtio paullo 



elongato, cseteris bre\ibus, perparum leniter incrassatis, ultimo 



subacute. 

 Lahriim (fig. 1 b) transversum, subcylindricum, antice incrassatura 



valde deflexum. 

 Mandihulce (fig. 1 c) dentatse. 

 Palpi compressi ; maxillares (fig. 1 (?) articulo primo minuto, secundo 



leniter curvato, clavato, tertio brevi, obovato, ultimo ovato ; 



lahicdes (fig. 1 e) articulo primo minuto, secundo obovato, tertio 



ampliato, ovato, apice producto. 

 Labium (fig. 1/) elongatum, lateribus constrictimi. 

 Caput a latere visum cuneiforme, fronte antrorsum producto, tnin- 



cato, facie reclivi, deorsum spectante, cljpeo porrecto. 

 Thorax subquadi'atus, apice rectus aut leniter productus. 

 Scutellum (fig. 1 g) subtrigonum. 



Elytra thorace vix latiora, elongata, cylindrica, apice rotundata. 

 Pedes breves, robusti, femoribus modice incrassatis, tarsis* (fig. 1 h) 



latis, articulo primo incrassato, extrorsimi ampliato. 

 Corpus filifonne, cylindricum, (Type, Lei^tispa Jtllformis.) 



This genus is one of those indicated by Che\Tolat in Dejeaii's Cata- 

 logue, and since characterized by Germar in the Faun. Ins. Eur. ; 

 but the name having been previously used by Curtis in his British 

 Entomology, it becomes necessary to change it. These insects are 

 remarkable for the wedge-shaped form of their head ; they are all 

 from the Old World. 



1. Leptispa filiformis, Guer. Tab. IV. Fig. 1. B.M. 



Guer. Icon, du Regne Anim. Texte, p. 277. 

 Germ. Faun. Ins. Eur. fasc. xxii. t. 10. 



L. elongata, angustata, cylindrica, obsciu'e cajruleo- aut nigro-ajnea, 



* The characters given of the tarsi, unless otherwise mentioned, refer to tlie 

 anterior legs only. 



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