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XLI. Descriptiutis of some Notidcscripf Insects /rom /ssam, cliic//i/ col/ccfed by 

 William Griffith, Esq., F.L.S., Assistant-Si(rgeuit in the Madras Medical 

 Service, and attached to tlie late Scientific .Mission to .4ssam. Bi/ the Rev. 

 Frederick William Hope, M.A., F.IÎ.S. 8f L.S. 



Read November 3rtl, 1S40. 



-During the last session, I submitted to the Linnean Society drawings and 

 descriptions of some new insects collected in Assam, and whicli have since 

 been published in the Transactions. 



In consequence of my absence from London when the plates were engraved, 

 the most remarkable form of the whole collection was omitted, partly as it 

 did not well accord with the first plate, consisting entirely of Longicorn beetles, 

 and partly as the figures would have appeared too crowded for the size of a 

 quarto plate. At the suggestion of Mr. 11. II. Solly, I have now figured 

 that unique form under the name of Cheirofonas, and I have also given a 

 few others ; and in the course of the present paper it is my intention to 

 describe the remaining nondescript species in Mr. Griffith's collection, and 

 to add such remarks as may tend to throw additional light upon the ento- 

 mology of a country almost yet untouched, but one which, from the magni- 

 tude and splendour of the insects already known, will be found to vie with, if 

 not surpass, any others in the Old or even in the New World. 



LucANUs. Linnœas &; Fabricius, 

 LucANiU/E. Leach. 



LUCANOIDEA*. Hope. 

 Spec. 1. LuCANUS FOKSTERI. 



Long, (mandibulis inclusis) une. 2, lin. 11. Lat. elytr. lin. 10. 



* In the Coleopterist's Miuuuil the terms Cicindcloidea and Caraboidca are adopted to include the 

 différent families belonging to each of those groups ; and the terra Lncanoidea will comprise the Lam- 

 pridœ, Syndesidœ, Passalidce, Ike, in short, all the natural families into which Liiciiiiiis of Linnams has 

 hitherto been subdivided. 



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