V.)8 MAKTIN .lAOOHY 



lOO. Doryscus testaceus, .lac. — Of tliis exti-aordinary species, 

 so different in the structure of the chiws than the rest of the 

 Phylopliaga, several specimens were obtained at Si-Rambé; they 

 agree in everytliinp: with the type specimen from Ceylon but 

 vary in the colour of the elyti'a, which latter have in some 

 specimens a narrow transverse piceous band at the base and a 

 small spot near the apex, in others the head and the thorax are 

 mòre or less marked with piceous and the elytra are narrowly 

 margined with the same colour. To my original description of 

 the genus (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1887) I have to make a correction; 

 in that diagnosis the anterior claws were described as appendi- 

 culatc and the posterior ones as united at the base, but divided 

 at the apex ; in the Sumatran specimen the posterior extremely 

 long and curveil claws are widely separated and simple, but 

 with a small tooth at the extreme base, and I can only assume, 

 that in the Ceylon specimen the posterior claws were but acci- 

 dentally joined ; Doryscus is so distinct from any other genus 

 of Galerucinae that it cannot Ijo mistaken ; I have unfortunately 

 not the Ceylon t^pe before me at this moment, but I have no 

 douljt about the identity of the Sumatran insect; the species is 

 also contained in the British Museum from India ; the general 

 appearance is that of a IHahrotica, the upper and under sideare 

 furnished with long bristly hairs, the posterior claws are excep- 

 tionally long and curved and their basal portion is as long as 

 the metatarsus, the thorax is deeply impressed at the disc and 

 the elytra are longitudinally costate and pul)escent. 



IGl. Wletellus costalipennis, n. sp. — Black, the head, antennae 

 and thorax fulvous, thorax imjiunctate, bifoveolate, elytra closely 

 and strongly punctured, the interstices longitudinally costate, 

 Ijlack, marked with fulvous below the base, femora fulvous al)Ove. 



</". Antennae with the third joint subquadrately and strongly 

 widened, its upjter edge deeply emarginate. 



9. Antennae simple, anterior half of the elytra fulvous, 

 posterior one black. 



Length 3 Va lines. 



Oblong, rathei" broad, the hrail proluced, triangularly ih^pres- 



