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almost smooth, but has been striated, though not deeply ; and there 

 is the appearance of a faint wide reticulation across the interstices, 

 which are impunctate. 



There have been seven striae and a short sutural one ; the third, 

 fourth, and tifth intervals appear a little more prominent than the 

 rest, but none of them assume the form of strongly marked costae 

 predominating over the rest ; the striae (judging from a short indi- 

 cation at the apex) have been punctate ; they arc straight, and run 

 down from the base to the apex or margin without curve; there is 

 a very marked reflexed margin, commencing a little below the 

 shoulder and continuing to the apex. At the shoulder, and for some 

 distance after, the margin of the elytron is inflcxcd, below the re- 

 flexed portion. The suture is sloped away a little at the base; from 

 which we may infer that the scutellum was not a small square or 

 rounded one encroaching on the elytron, as in many genera of 

 Buprestidce, but rather triangular, or perhaps invisible, an in Chry- 

 sochroci, &c. Judging from the texture, it is probable that the 

 elytron had a metallic lustre. There is no appearance of serration 

 or emargination at the apical margin. 



Length of elytron, 5 lin. ; breadth. 1| lin. 



On the whole we have nothing corresponding to this elytron in 

 existing Buprestidae, nor is there anything in Mr. Westwood's, or 

 other authors' figures of fossil insects which 1 have seen, correspond- 

 ing to it ; and as it is sufficiently well-marked to allow of other 

 specimens being identified with it, and even referred to it as a genus, 

 I would propose to constitute a new genus for it under the name of 

 Lomotus (from \tSua, a margin, referring to the margined elytra); and 

 I add the specific name //i.</<>j,i, in honour of Mr. Hislop, to whom, 

 along witli Mr. Hunter, we chiefly owe the discoveries in geology 

 made in the Nagpur district, 



No. li (Buprestidce?). — Crushed basal half of the elytron of appa- 

 rently a Buprestidous insert, but in loo had a state to be decipher- 

 able or describable. 



No. •"> i Buprestida ?). A portion of the apex of an elytron bearing 

 punctured striae. The striae straight, excepl the exterior one. the 

 punctures transverse ; the apex angular, as in LomatusHislopi ( Xo. 1), 

 and a slight raised margin ; but the fragmenl is too .small and too 



indistinct to allow much to be said about it. It i- obviously a por- 

 tion of a much smaller insect than the tun preceding. 



The size of the present insect might be about 3 lines, that of the 



preci ding about 7 or 8 lines. 



No. I i Buprestida '.' I. - This ;. a linear fragment apparently of two 

 elytra crushed into a position ;it right angles to each other, and then 

 again crushed into another angle longitudinally. We have neither 

 base, nor apex, nor margin. We neither know its Length, nor its 

 breadth, nor ii< form. All we know is, that the elytron must have 



hern more than half an inch in Length, certainly more than I J lines 

 in breadth (judging from the crushed portion, probal ly more than 

 :i lines in breadth); that the elytra were punctate-sl . 'hat 



