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PLATE XY. 
DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW LONGICORN BEETLES FROM THE INDIAN 
ARCHIPELAGO. 
In the magnificent collection of insects made in the Philippine 
Islands by’LI. Cuming, Esq., (a complete series of which, including 
all the unique species, has been secured for the British Museum), 
were contained single specimens of each of the insects repre¬ 
sented in the three upper figures of the accompanying plate, and 
which, from their great singularity, beauty, and rarity, will be 
deemed valuable subjects for illustration in this work. 
The first species has been described by Mr. G. It. Waterhouse 
in a paper read before the Entomological Society, under the name 
of Doliops Curculionoides , from the extraordinary resemblance 
which it bears to a certain species of the Curculionideous genus 
Pachyrliynclius, also found by Mr. Cuming in the same country. The 
following are the characters of the genus given by Mr. Waterhouse:— 
' DOLIOPS, W T aterh. 
Caput quam thorax angnstius, paulo productum et postice cylindraceum, oculi reniformes, 
palpi mediocrce, articulis terminalibus oblongo-ovatis, et subtruncatis. Antennae 11- 
articulatae, breves et gracilcs, articulo 3tio perlongo ct ad apicem dilatato. Thorax 
subglobostis postico constrictus. Elytra perbrevia, valdo convexa humeris prominulis. 
Pedes paulo grandcs, femoribus in medio sensim clavatis, tibiis latis compressis, tarsis 
brcvibus latis. 
Doliops Curculionoides. Obscure viridi-aeneus, indistincte ecerulescenti relucens, palpis 
nigris, antennis articulis 3tio et sequentibus griscia ad apicem nigris, capite linea alba 
longitudinaliti notato, elytris 14 guttis flavescenti—albis adspersis, maculis eodem colore 
corpus subtus ornantibus, tarsis cinereis, articulo terminali nigro. Long corp. lin. 5£. 
PI. 1 a. natural size ; 1. magnified ; 1 b. mouth magnified, and seen from beneath. 
Although apparently allied to Dorcadion in the short ovate form 
of the body ; the form of the head, and structure of the antennse, 
legs, and particularly of the prothorax, give this genus a nearer 
relation to certain Saperdse, and especially the genera Colobothea 
and Mesosa. 
COLOBOTHEA, Dejean. 
Colobothea leucospilota, "Westw. pi. 15, fig. 2. Lcete ccerulea aureo seneoque tincta, rude 
punctata, thorace macula alba in medio marginis postici, elytris guttis 10, fascia abbrevi- 
ata angulata ante medium alteraque postica curvata ad Buturam interrupta, albo-squamosis 
antennis pedibusque cyaneis; corpore subtus nigro-seneo, sterno marginibusque seg- 
mentorum abdominalium squamis albis variis. Long corp. lin. 10^. 
