NOTES ON CERTAIN CEYLONESE COLEOPTERA 

 (CLAYICORNIA) DESCRIBED BY THE LATE MR. 

 FRANCIS WALKER. 



By a. Sidney Olliff, Assistant Zoologist, 

 Australian Museum. 



A few months ago, whilst going through the collection of 

 Clavicorn Coleoptera in the British Museum, I had occasion to 

 examine the types of some species from Ceylon, described by the 

 late Mr. Francis Walker. As many of these species were referred 

 to genera widely remote from those to which they naturally 

 belong, and are consequently out of place in Gemminger and von 

 Harold's general catalogue of Coleoptera, I thought a few notes 

 which I made at the time would not be without interest to the 

 members of this Society, especially as two of the species are very 

 nearly allied to some of the commonest Clavicorns of this country, 



One or two of the following synonyms, distinguished by an 

 asterisk and included here for the sake of completeness, have 

 already been published by Mr. C. O. Waterhouse, who has also 

 pointed out that Inclica solida, described by Walker as a new 

 genus of Byrrhidse, belongs to the Cryptocephalidfe, at the same 

 time suggesting that it may prove to be identical with Monachus. 



NlTIDULID^. 



NiTiDULA CONTEGENS, Walk., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3), Vol. II., 



p. 206 (1S5S).^ Carpo2)hilus vittiger, Murray, Trans. Linn. 



Soc, Lond., Vol. XXIY., p. 373 {\^U). = Carpoi)hilus 



higuttatus, Mostch., Etudes Ent., 18-58, p. 43, 



I think the latter name should have precedence, as Walker's 



description applies almost equally well to any of the spotted 



species contained in the ninth section of Murray's sub-genus 



Carjwphilus. 



