NEW  GENERA  AND  SPECIES  OF  COLEOPTEROUS  INSECTS. 
103, 
Descr.  Caput  punctatum.  Rostrum  porrectum,  teres,  caput  thoracemque  longitudine 
eequans,  antice  glabrum,  postic^  pmictulatum.  Antenna  rostro  longiores,  ad 
basin  attenuatse,  articulis  ultimis  subpubescentibus.  Oculi  hemisphserici,  pro- 
minuli,  pilis  albidis  cincti.  Thorax  obconicus,  antice  angustatus,  postice  latitu- 
dine  longitudinem  sequans,  ad  latera  rotundatus,  supra  parum  convexus,  linea 
dorsali  vix  distincta,  tuberculis  numerosis  obsitus.  Scutellum  breve,  flavidum. 
Elytra  antice  supra  thoracem  paullo  producta,  postice  dilatata,  rotundata,  tuber- 
culata,  piloso-albida,  maculis  quibusdam  fulvo-aureo-pilosis.  Femora  antica  ma- 
jora,  2-spinosa,  spinis  sequalibus ;  posteriora  mediocria.  TiUcs  posteriores  fere 
rectse,  subspinosse.  Tarsi  tibiis  paullo  breviores,  subtiis  spongiosi,  articulo  primo 
subobconico,  secundo  subtrigono,  tertio  latiore  bilobo,  ultimo  elongate  2-un- 
guiculato.  Corpus  infra  griseum,  albido-pilosum,  abdominis  segmentis  maculis 
fulvo-aureo-pilosis  triplici  ordine  dispositis.  Pectus  pilis  longioribus  auratis 
balteatum. 
(LONGICORNES,  Lat.) 
Fam.  Lamiid^. 
Genus.  Lamia,  Fab. 
1.  Lamia  Roylii. 
Tab.  XV.  Fig.  1. 
Lam.  nigra;  antennis  corpore  longioribus;  elytris  mucronatis,  ad  basin  scabris,  maculis 
albis  octo  notatis. 
Long,  corporis  28  lin.  ;  lat.  8|-. 
Hab.  in  Indiee  Orientalis  montibus  Mussoonee  dictis. 
Mus.  Royle. 
Descr.  Antenna  nigree,  serrato-spinosse,  articulo  ultimo  elongato  sublineari.  Caput 
cum  oculis  latitudinem  thoracis  antic^  fer^  sequans,  fronte  depresso,  nigro-fuscum, 
maculis  linearibus  albis  pone  oculos.  Thorax  longitudine  latitudini  insequalis, 
utrinque  spina  acuta  armatus,  macula  alba  dorsali  lineam  elevatam  nigram  inclu- 
dente.  Scutellum  album.  Elytra  ad  basin  thorace  multo  latiora,  humeris  elevatis 
subspinosis,  singula  maculis  albis  quatuor  notatis,  quarum  anteriores  majores 
sequentes  magnitudine  decrescentes.  Corpus  infra  fuscum,  vitta  alba  balteatum. 
Pedes  nigri.    Tarsi  flavo-pubescentes. 
I  have  named  this  fine  insect  in  honour  of  J.  F.  Royle,  Esq.,  by  whom  it  was  col- 
lected, and  whose  researches  in  the  upper  provinces  of  British  India  have  furnished 
him  with  ample  materials  for  his  interesting  '  Illustrations  of  the  Botany  and  other 
