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and slender, femora with a distinct tooth ; tibiae simple ; claws 
bilid. Prosternum broadly subquadrate; mesosternum not longer 
than broad, covered with long hairs. 
Length 6 mm. 
Hah. Bengal : Mandar ; Southern Bombay : Kanara ; Malabar 
Coast : Mahe. 
This species closely resembles Neonila obscurata, Jac., but all 
the specimens I have seen of L. Icanarcensis are black with a 
fine yellowish pubescence, while N. obscurata is entirely white on 
account of the white excrescence and is furnished with long erect 
white hairs which are absent in L. Icanarcensis , the legs in the 
last-named insect are also more slender and elongate. 
Genus DEMOTINA. 
Demotina, Laly, Journ. Eat. ii, 1868, p. 158 ; id. Trans. Eat. Soc. 
1864, p. 84 ; Chapuis, Gen. Coleopt. x, 1874, p. 281 ; Lefev. Cat. 
Eurnolp. 1885, p. 80. 
Type, D. boivringi, Baly, from China. 
Range. India; Ceylon; Burma; China; Japan; Malayan Sub- 
region. 
Body oblong, subcylindrical, covered above and beneath with 
small adpressed scales. Head perpendicular ; antennae either 
slender and filiform or rather more robust, subfiliform, basal joint 
ovate, incrassate, second shorter than the first, the rest some- 
what variable, four or five terminal joints rather shorter and 
often slightly thickened ; eyes prominent, entire. Thorax trans- 
versely" convex, lateral margins either obsolete or finely serrate. 
Elytra oblong, closely punctured. Legs moderately" long ; femora 
moderately thickened, armed each with a tooth beneath ; inter- 
mediate or posterior tibiae or both notched at their apices ; claws 
bifid. Prosternum oblong or oblong-quadrate, its anterior margin 
continuous with that of the episternum. Mesosternum oblong- 
quadrate. 
The notched tibiae separate this genus from Leprotes, the scales 
instead of hairs from Lypesthes , and the equal thickness of the 
femora from Hyperaxis. 
750. Demotina modesta, Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1878, p. 164. 
Pale flavous; thorax slightly darker, entirely" clothed with 
fiavous adpressed scales. 
Head with the clypeus very narrowly transverse, finely punc- 
tured ; antennae pale, extending to base of elytra only r , third 
joint scarcely longer than the second, terminal joints short and 
thickened. Thorax about half as broad again as long, lateral 
margins very finely serrate. Elytra with very shallow depression 
at the base, more strongly punctured than the thorax, punctures 
