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more prominent, and only the apex rounded-off or narrowed. 

 The legs are similar to those of the former, but more robust, 

 less hairy, and have the tarsi more cylindric. The insect is of a 

 blackish metallic colour ; the legs and palpi are yellowish ; the 

 iihix, however, the apex of the palpi, and also joints 1-2 of the 

 antennae are rather darker; the femora are blackish towards the 

 end; the mouth and joints 3-11 of the antennae are chestnut, 

 and the coxse pitch-colour. The animal is densely and deeply 

 punctured all over, very sparingly covered with small greyish 

 hairs, nearly obsolete on the back, but more distinct below. It 

 is less highly polished than the former. I have known this 

 species for a long time, and specimens of it must exist at the 

 Mus. Berol. ; the former I met with but lately. 



I may mention, that in dissecting these two species I have 

 observed the same remarkable production of the oesophagus 

 with the ligula, characteristic of the genus, and noticed in many 

 of the European, kinds. 



23. Anthicus formicariuSj N. 



A. castaneus, capite, abdomine elytrisque piceis, his pilorum niveorum 

 fascia media transversali interrupta maculisque concoloribus 6 hu- 

 , meralibus, obsoletis, parce pilosus. Long. corp. l^ lin. 



Caput globosum supra subtusque profunda punetatum, oculis 

 parvis. Thorax nodoso-pyriformis, infra medium constrictus, parte 

 anteriore crassiore lin. long. med. profunda divisa subcordiformi. 

 Elytra elliptiea. 



Sub vaget. putrescent, victitat ; prope Colombo rarius legi. 



This insect looks uncommonly like an ant. It is easily di- 

 stinguished from all other species of the island partly by this 

 resemblance, partly by the sculpture of the thorax and the white 

 fascia across the elytra. The antennae are robust, thickened 

 towards the tip, the three last joints forming a club. The legs 

 have the femora very much incrassated, the tibiae at the apex 

 bicalcarate and the tarsi, especially of the anterior pair, very 

 hairy below; the fourth joint appears to be slightly cordiform. 

 The white marks of the shoulders and the fascia across the wing- 

 eovers are composed of white hairs ; the former are rather an 

 interrupted row of these than true maculae ; the fascia consists 

 of two halves, one in either elytron, reaching neither the external 

 margin nor the suture. The insect is of slow motion. 



24. Anthicus insulantcs. 



A. testaceus, abdomine obscuriore, capite thoraceque rufo-testaceis,^ 

 elytris fasciis 2 nigris, parce pilosus. Long. corp. \\-\^ lin. 



