200 FORFICULID.i;. 



129. Syntonus neololDoplioroides, Burr* (Fig. 62.) 



Opisthocosmia neoloboplioroides, Burr, (01) p. 335. 

 Cosmiella neoloboplioroides, Sirby, (04) p. 38, 



Of small and graceful build; general colour yellowish red, 

 shading to darker. Antennae very slender ; fourth segment a 

 little shorter than third. Head smooth, rather broad, reddish or 

 blackish. Pronotum slightly narrower -than the head, almost 

 square, anterior margin truncate, sides parallel, posterior margin 

 truncate, rather tumid in the middle, the sides depressed ; pro- 

 zona not separated from metazona, median suture faint ; brown, 

 the sides paler. Elytra short, not rounded at all at the shoulders, 

 hardly longer than broad, truncate posteriorly, yellowish brown, 

 smooth ; axillary angle weak, so that a very short transverse 

 space is visible as a small scutellum between the base of the 

 elytra and the pronotum. Wings abortive. Legs slender, 

 yellowish. Abdomen smooth, shining, reddish brown ; pliciform 

 tubercles black. Last dorsal segment smooth ; posterior margin 

 straight, tumid over the insertion of the forceps. Forceps of c5' 

 with the branches contiguous at the base, and for the first quarter 

 of their length slender and somewhat depressed, with a small 

 obsolete crested tooth on the upper surface ; then very slender, 

 elongate and gently arcuate, unarmed, with a few obsolete 

 denticulations on the inner margiu ; in the $ simple, straight 

 and cylindrical. 



d 2 



Length of body 7-2o mm. 8 mm. 



„ forceps.... 4-35 ,, 3 „ 



Ceylon: Kudaga, Hatton, vii. (coU. Burr), Hakgala {Willey, 

 coll. Burr). 



Type in the author's collection. 



Superficially like Obehtra tamul and Sondax repens, but easily 

 recognizable by the short but complete and free elytra, and by th& 

 generic characters. 



Genus KOSMETOR, Barr. 



Kosmetor, Burr, (07') pp. 120 >Sc 122. 

 Opisthocosmia, Burr (olim). 



Type, Opisthocosmia annandahi, Eurr. 



Size medium ; form elongate ; stature slender. Antennae with 

 about 12 segments ; third rather short, subclavate to subcylindrical ; 

 fourth a little thicker than third and almost as long ; fifth cylin- 

 drical, elongate. Head smooth, tumid. Pronotum about as wide 

 as the head, nearly square, truncate anteriorly, rounded posteriorly. 

 Elytra long, smooth, parallel-sided, well rounded at the shoulders. 

 Wings long. Legs not very long, tibia? not sulcate above ; tarsi 

 rather short, third segment nearly as long as the first. Prosternum 

 rather broad ; mesosternum short, transverse, truncate. Abdomen 



