On a new Genus q/ Anthicitlaj (foleoplera). 295 



XLVI — A new Genus of Antliicida' {Coleoptero) from the 

 hhinds of Mysol and Waijiou. By G. C CllAMlMON, 

 F.Z.S. 



Mr. Blair liavinf^ called attention to the systematic position 

 of tlie Australian genera Levwdes^ Leniodiuus, and Trichan- 

 anca [At.n. & M:ig. Nat. Hi^t. (8) xi. pp. 207-209 (1013)], 

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

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

 Specimens of this insect were acquired by Westwood for the 

 Hope Museum more than fifty years a^^n, and others have 

 also been detected amon";st the Lagriids in the British 

 Museum. 



Lagriomorpiia, gen. nov. 



Head short, subtriangular, broadly truncated above the 

 moderately wide neck, the eyes small, rounded, prominent, 

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

 depressed, confused with the front, and somewhat prominent, 

 the antennje stout, rapidly widened outwards, inserted be- 

 neath a tuberculiform ])roininence 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, ini- 

 niarpjiuate 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 sepaiated from the propleura by an oblique suture ; 

 anterior coxal cavities widely open behind the large, conical, 

 contiguous coxffi ; mesosternum long, very narrowly sepa- 

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

 nietasternum, 2-5 comparatively short, subequal ; posterior 

 coxaj rather large, well separated ; legs moderately stout ; 

 tibise finely carinate towar<ls 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 sim[)le. 



Type, L. semiaerxdea. 



The Malayan insect forming the type of this genus would 

 ))erhaps be mistaken at first sight for a Lagriid ; but the 



