186 rORFICULIDJS. 



branches in the c? subcontiguous at the base, long and slender ; 

 dark chestnut ; subtrigoual near the base ; seen from the side, 

 horizontal and straight ; seen from above, gently sinuate for 

 the first half of their length ; on the upper margin, at the end 

 of the basal third, there is a compressed short sharp tooth ; from 

 this point gently diverging, with a small sharp tooth on the inner 

 margin ; then gently arcuate, slender and unarmed, enclosing an 

 oval area, the points meeting. 



Length of body 10 - 11 mm. 



„ forceps 6-75- 7*75 „ 



BuEMA : Metanja, viii., Karen-ni, Keba District, 3000-3700 ft., 

 v./sii. (Genoa Mks.). 



Also occurs in Borneo, Sumatra, the Celebes, and Macassar. 



Tyjye in the Ley den Museum. 



The slender and elongate build, brick-red elytra and long 

 slender forceps, taken in conjunction with the narrow pronotum 

 and angustate last dorsal segment of the male, render this elegant 

 species unmistakable. 



In " Das Tierreich," deBormans describes the elytra as "braun- 

 gelb " (p. 96), and again as " ganz gelb." This is due to the fact that 

 the original manuscript was written in French and translated into 

 Grerman, for in every specimen seen by the author the elytra are 

 brick-red, with a narrow dark band down the suture and down 

 the costal margin ; the original manuscript is in the author's 

 possession ; " braungelb " is a translation of " fauve " which 

 might be applied to this colour ; " ganz gelb " is a translation of 

 " enticrement fauve," but the author has yet to see a specimen to 

 which this remark applies. 



119. Cordax ceylonicus, MotscJi. (Fig. 67.) 



Labia ceylonica, Motachuhky, (63) p. 4. 



Opisthocosmia cevlonica, Dohrn, (65) p. 83 ; Boron. (00-) p. 96 ; Burr, 

 (01) p. 335, (04) p. 305, (07') p. 100 ; Kirby, (04) p. 38. 



Small, slender, brown. Anteunse with 12 segments, brown. 

 Pronotum narrower than the head, hinder border rounded, anterior 

 border straight, the sides strongly reflexed, shining brown. Elytra 

 twice as long as the pronotum, uniform brown, truncate at the 

 apex. Wings projecting well beyond the elytra, brown, with a 

 faint yellow spot on the outer side at the base and at the apex 

 of the suture. Abdomen darker brown, the glandular folds very 

 prominent, black. In the S the antepenultimate dorsal segment is 

 armed on each side with a short tooth, the penultimate and ultimate 

 segments are narrowed, the latter with a deep impression in the 

 middle ; the penultimate ventral segment semicircular, covering 

 only half the last segment. The forceps are long, with the branches 



