( 303 ) X. Neiv genera and species of Languriidffi. By the Eev. W. W. Fowler, M.A., F.L.S. [Eead April 7th, 1886.] Plate I. The following descriptions of new genera and species of Lamjunidce are the result of a study of the species in the following collections: — 1st, the collection of Mr. Crotch, kindly lent me for the purpose by the University of Cambridge ; 2nd, the collection made by Mr. Lewis in Ceylon, chiefly interesting as being made up almost entirely of the Cladoxenoid forms ; 3rd, Mr. Gorham's collection ; and 4th, the British Museum collection. I have lately been arranging the collection of the group in the Brussels Museum, at the request of M. Prudhomme de Borre, and have added one or two notes on the species therein contained. Before, however, proceeding to the descriptive part of the paper there are one or two points on which perhaps it will be well to say a few words. In the first place exception may be taken to the use of the term " Lmuju-riidce'' : as far as I know it has only been used by myself and Mr. Lewis, who published a very valuable paper " On Japanese Languriidce " in the ' Journal of the Linnean Society.' As a matter of fact the group has not yet been formally raised to the rank of a family, and is usually classed with the Erotylidce. In the paper referred to Mr. Lewis alludes at length to the habits of Languria in the larval state, as described by Professor Comstock, and argues from these that the group is con-nected rather with the Chrysomclidce than with either the Erotijlidce or the Endomychidce. Mr. Lewis's own observations in Eastern Asia led him to place them near the latter of these families, but he afterwards says : — " I think we must, after reading Prof. Comstock's paper, look at the Languriidce as a — comparatively speaking — recent type of Coleoptera, nearer to the C]trysomeUd<i' than to the Erotylidce, which has greatly multiplied its TRANS. ENT. SOC. LONi). 188G. PAllT III. (UCT.j
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