368 Mr. Waterhouse on Coleoptera of Madagascar. 



before the apex, indicating a twelfth joint ; the female has this 

 same joint shortei* and simple. The male organ is oblong, broad 

 and flat. The female ovipositor is elongate, acuminate at the 

 apex, 



LAMIID^^:. 



Lencogra])/iiis * variegatus, n. sp, 



Crassus, ater, velutinus, sabnloso-variegatus ; elytris tuber- 

 culis obtusis duobns juxta scutellum humerisque nitidis. Long. 

 8-1 Oi lin. 



Build somewhat that of Euminietes, but broader and more 

 robust. Head black, Avith a fine sandy line between the 

 autennn?, and an oblique one behind each eye. Thorax with a 

 moderately strong tul)ercle at the side, a small one on each side 

 of the disc, black, Avith a sandy stripe in the middle and a 

 broader one on each side of the disc, there are also a few irregu- 

 lar spots. Elytra two-fifths broader than the thorax, gently 

 narrowed posteriorly, slightly flattened on the back, obtuse at 

 the apex, with two appi'oximate tubercles close to the scutellum, 

 slightly elevated at the shoulders, densely clothed with sandy 

 tomeutum, irregularly dotted Avith black, Avith an irregular black 

 patch on each side behind the middle (dotted Avith sandy), a 

 flexuous black band beyond this, and a black spot just before 

 the apex. Antennas and legs sandy-white, the apices of the 

 third to eleA^enth joints of the antennas, the inside of the femora, 

 the apex of the tibiae, the apex of the second and fourth joints 

 of the tarsi and the entire third joint black. Body beneath 

 black, dotted at the sides Avith sandy-Avhite. 



I place this species provisionally in the genus Leiocographiis, 

 but I Avould point out that the antenna? differ in being simple, 

 not fringed at the apex, tlie joints gradually diminishing toAvards 

 the apex. 



The male has the fifth segment of the alxlomen truncate at 

 the apex. The female has this segment rather deeply imj; 

 at the apex. 



* Waterhouse, Cistula Entomologica, ii, p. 295 (June, LS78). 



