374 ' Mr. J. ISfietncr on new Ceylon Coleopfera, 



Tribe HARPALiDiE ? 

 LepithriXy n. g., N. 



Corpus oblongum, robustum, subconvexum. Caput ovatum, 

 mediocre ; oculis semiglobosis, prominulis. Mentum leviter sub- 

 semilunariter emarginatum, lobis extus rotundatis, dente vel parvo, 

 obtuso Ycl nullo. Ligula mediocris, cornea, oblonge quadrata, apice 

 transversim truncata, libera, paraglossis cylindricis apice truncatis, 

 sat robustis, marginem ant. parum superantibus. Palpi articulo 

 ultimo elliptico, truncato. Labrum apicem versus angustatum, apice 

 rotundatum. Mandibulcs validse, apice arcuatae, una uni-, altera bi- 

 dentata. Antennae filiformcs humeros parum superantes, art. 2° par- 

 vo, reliquis longitudine subaequalibus. Thorax mediocris longitudine 

 parum latior, antice vix, postice baud emarginatus, lateribus leviter 

 rotundatus, basi parum angustatus, angulis omnibus rotundatis, 

 margine elevato. Elytra ovata, infra med. parum dilatata, apice 

 leviter angustata et acuminata. Pedes subaequales, tibiis apice bi- 

 calcaratis, calcaribus intus subtiliter serratis, ant. leviter emarginatis, 

 tarsis 2 ant. art. 1-3 leviter dilatatis gradatim minoribus, art. 1° 

 cylindrico, 2° obcordato, 3° trigono, omnes art. 4° maris bilobo, 

 fcemince bifido, art. 5*^ magno, unguibus validis, simplicibus ; suhtus 

 tarsis 2 ant. art. 1-4, intermed. art. 2-4 squaraularum longepeduu- 

 culatarum seriebus duabus munitis. 



57. Lepithrix foliolosa, N. 



L. glabra, supra obscure brunnea, thoracis elytrorumque limbo tes- 

 taceo, subtus brunneo-testacea, pedibus albidis, antennis art. 3 

 primis flavis, reliquis nigrescentibus, palpis art. ultimo testaceo, 

 reliquis flavis ; thorace ad angulos basales profundius foveolato ; 

 elytris striatis ; prosterno canaliculato. Long. corp. 3-4 lin. 



Specimina nonnulla mens. Octob. prope Colombo nocte ad lumen 

 cepi. 



The internal vesture of the tarsi of these otherwise inconspi- 

 cuous insects constitutes their most important character, and is 

 altogether of a very interesting nature. I proceed at once to 

 describe it at full length, premising that / believe I have both 

 male and female before me. The individual which I take to be 

 the male is smaller and of a darker colour than the other. The 

 legs, with the exception of the tarsi, are the same in both sexes. 

 They are of middling strength ; the tibiae are furnished with two 

 spurs at the inner side of the apex, which spurs are finely serrated 

 along their inner edge ; the tarsi have joints 1-3 of the first pair 

 slightly dilated ; the posterior pair is elongated, subcylindric ; 

 and the intermediate one forms a passage between the two. 

 Joints 1-3 of the first pair gradually decrease in size, joint 

 1 being at the same time subcylindric, joint 2 rather cordi- 

 form, and joint 3 rather triangular ; joint 4 in all six tarsi is 

 bilobed in the male and bifid in the female, this character being, 

 however, less distinctly expressed in the two posterior tarsi than 



