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on its front side. The montum is dark with sparser and finer 

 punctures, less ribbed on its fore and side edges. L. roseiceps 

 Reg., from Annam , seems, judging from the description, to be 

 the nearest ally, but I am not acquainted with this* species. 



Laccobius (s. sir.) syriacus, Guillebeau. 

 Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1896, 228. 



Dr. Annandale met with a single tf , taken on the Plain 

 of Gennesaret, that agrees almost perfectly with Guillebeau's 

 description. The punctuation of the postfront seems only to 

 be a little more dispersed than on the prefront, the punctua- 

 tion of the mentum mixed with any larger punctures, and the 

 base of intermediate and posterior thighs of a light colour, 

 that of the anterior femora being infuscated only. The specie 

 belongs to the nigriceps-series having the not alutaceous head 

 and pronotum and the not very regular disposed rows of 

 punctures of the elytra known in that group. From nigriceps, 

 1 horns, especially it may be separated at a glance by the cf 

 specula of the labrum being about twice as wide as long, and 

 by the absence of a patch of yellow pubescence on the under- 

 side of the middle femora in that sex. From sinuatus, Mots., 

 T'av, ' J ]d 1 ward8 l > certainly its nearest ally, it is differenti- 

 ated by the broadly, well marked lateral yellow spots of the 

 pretront before the antenno-frontal suture, by the softness of 

 tne punctuation of mentum (approaching scutdlaris, Mots. 

 ttanglb., m this respect) and finally bv the dark transverse 

 discal spot, which does not quite reach the base of the 

 pronotum. 



in Svril m TfY d^'**' Mots -< of ™y cabinet has been captured 

 IcuieUaX AW Zu e r tter - U was Awarded to me by Bodemeyer as 



Shnlll i T - he L - 8cutellari * var. albescens of Sahlberg's List ma ? 

 pernap:, belong to smuatus, Mots. 



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