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which is remotely placed and arranged in rows; legs slender 
and elongate, flavous, the tarsi piceous, the first joint of the 
posterior tarsi as long as the three following together; claws 
appendiculate. 
Hab. Sumatra, Mt. Singalang (Beccari). 
36. Luperus piceomarginatus, n. sp. 
Flavous; upper part of the head and the antennae (the 3 
basal joints excepted) black ; thorax fulvous, impunctate ; elytra 
finely punctured, testaceous, the sutural and lateral margin 
narrowly piceous. 
Length 1 line. 
Head impunctate, black; the clypeus and the frontal tubercles 
fulvous, the latter transverse, strongly raised and bounded 
behind by a deep groove; eyes large; labrum and palpi black; 
antennae about half the length of the body, the third joint 
scarcely longer than the second, the following joints longer 
and rather robust; thorax nearly squareshaped rather convex, 
the sides nearly straight, slightly~narrowed at the base, surface 
without depression, not visibly punctured; scutellum black; 
elytra narrow, finely and closely punctured, the surface some- 
what rugose, pale yellowish white, a shoulder spot and all the 
margins narrowly edged with piceous or black ; underside, with 
the exception of the breast and the legs fulvous or flavous ; 
the posterior tibiae with a distinct spine, anterior coxal cavities 
open. 
Hab. Australia, Somerset (L. M. D’Albertis). 
Microlepta, n. gen. 
Body oblong-ovate; eyes very large; antennae closely ap- 
proached, as long as the body, filiform, the first joint very 
long and slender, the second one, minute, the third double as 
long as the second, the fourth and following joints as long as 
the second and third joints together; thorax transverse, more 
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