PHYLLOBIDiE. 201 



CIV. * Genus LEPIDOPHORUS. Kirb. 



Body covered with scales. Antennae longer than the head, eleven-jointed ; scape as long as the 

 remainder of the antenna?, reaching to the eye, growing gradually thicker towards the apex ; pedicel 

 as long as the two following joints, obconical ; the remaining joints of the stalk rather top-shaped ; 

 knob three-jointed, ovate, acute; rostrum shorter than the prothorax, thick, subcylindrical, straight; 

 bed of the scape of the antenna? very short, not reaching the eye ; eyes subobtusangular, with the 

 vertex downwards : prothorax rather longer than wide, barrel-shaped : elytra taken together oblong- 

 oval : scutellum punctiform : thighs clubbed, unarmed ; tibiae armed at the apex with a short incurved 

 spine ; penultimate joint of the tarsi bilobed. 



This genus is extremely near to Barytomus Germar ; in that, however, the third joint of the 

 antennas is nearly as long as the second, the bed of the scape is less strongly marked, the eyes are 

 nearly round, and the elytra at the apex form a ridge with each other. These genera appear leading 

 towards the Orthocerous ffliynchophora, the bed of the scape in them becoming shorter and almost 

 evanescent. 



(269) I. * Lepidophorus lineaticollis. Streak-necked Lepidophorus. 



L. (lineato-collis) niger albido squamulosus et pllosus : prothorace viltis tribus angustis albis ; antennis pedibusque rvfescentibus; 



elytris apice seriatim setulosis. 

 Streak-necked Lepidophorus, black with whitish scales and pile : prothorax with three narrow white stripes ; antennae and 



legs reddish-brown : elytra at the apex with little bristles in rows. 



Length of the body 2A lines. 



Several specimens taken in Lai. 65°. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body black, underneath hairy with little whitish round scales and hairs of the same colour inter- 

 mixed. Head and rostrum behind the antenna? covered with similar scales ; antenna? dusky-red : 

 prothorax dusky, confidently punctured with three whitish longitudinal narrow indistinct stripes 

 formed of minute scales : elytra mottled with whitish and dusky round scales ; slightly furrowed with 

 punctures in the furrows ; at the apex, in the deflexed part, there is a series of white rigid minute 

 bristles between each furrow : legs hairy, reddish brown ; thighs darker. 



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