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the humerus is strongly raised, aud between it and the suture the 

 surface is so markedly convex that the part immediately behind 

 appears strongly depressed. The intervals between the rows of 

 large punctures bear series of short, semi-erect, silvery hairs. 

 Underside : anterior coxal cavities closed behind ; prosternuni 

 very narrow, almost concealed between the strongly rounded 

 coxae ; mesosternum elongate and more or less broad; first ab- 

 dominal sternite very long ; hind femora more strongly incrassate 

 than the others; all the tibiae cylindrical and without spurs 

 or spinules at the apex ; claw-segment of the tarsi thickened and 

 not projecting so much beyond the bilobed segment as in some 

 genera ; claws small, appendiculate. 



Range. Japan, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Andaman Islands, 

 Burma, Assam. 



Key to the Species. 



Colour deep chestnut-brown . . . L. assamensis, sp. n.,p. 131. 



Colour of prothorax and legs golden-brown, 



that of elytra black with bluish tint .... L. fulvoniger, sp. n., p. 132. 



78. Liprus assamensis, sp. nov. 



Body shining. Colour deep chestnut-brown; third, fourth and 

 fifth segments of the antennae lighter brown. 



Fig. 49. — Liprus assamensis, Maulik. 



Head broad and large, vertex convex, impunctate, with a few 

 scattered silvery hairs ; interocular space on a more elevated plane 



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