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Mount Cameroons ; many examples. 



Belongs to the same section as L. Lep^-ieuri, in which the pos- 

 terior episterna are longer than broad, the ventral segments not 

 crenulated on their fore margins, and the neck not constricted above. 

 The thorax has the same broad outline — much broader and more 

 dilated anteriorly than in C. grossus and its allies, but it is narrower, 

 especially behind, than in L. Leprieuri. The scanty punctuation of 

 the elytral interstices — the punctures not being more than 3 or 4 in a 

 transverse row — and the great length of the red basal spot on the 7th 

 and Sth interstices, further amply distinguish the species. 



{To he continued). 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES of the COLEOPTEROUS GENUS 

 MACRONOTA (CETONIADES) FROM CEYLON. 



BY D. SHARP, M.B., F.E.S. 



During his recent fruitful visit to Ceylon, Mr. Geo. Lewis met 

 with a Macronofa apparently previously unknown, and as it is a species 

 of much interest, I have, at his request, described it and named it in 

 honour of the amiable and esteemed wife of A. Haly, Esq., of the 

 Colombo Museum. Mr. Lewis met with this insect on a high ridge 

 on the mountains between Eogawantalava and Balangoda, where, in 

 March, 1882, it was clinging to the the stems of young Cinchona 

 trees. Four or five examples comprise the whole of his captures. 



Maceonota Halti. 



Nlgro-)'i(hro-ochraceoque variegata ; capite thoraceque ochraceo-squamo- 

 sis, nigro-vittatis, hue utrinque et ante scutellum macula nigra notato ; elytris 

 ruhris, ochraceo-signatls, hie hide nigro variegatis ; pygidio medio macula 

 magna, utrinque macula parva, ochraceis ; corpure subtiis nigro ochraceoque 

 variegato, pectore femorihusque fitlvo-puhescentibus ; pedibus rujis. 



Long. corp. 18, lat. S\ mm. 



Clypeus with reflexed margin, not eniarginate, rufescent ; a medial stripe along 

 the head black, and on each side near the eye a smaller black mark, these marks, 

 I separated by broad ochraceous vittse, converging, but not meeting on the vertex : 

 punctuation confined to the anterior part. The thorax is slightly more than half as 

 broad as the elytra, becomes considerably broader from the front margin till two- 

 fifths of the length is attained, in the remaining three-fifths it becomes slightly 

 narrower, but is broader at the base than at the front margin, tlie base forms in the 

 middle only a short broad lobe over the scutellum ; the greater part of the surface 

 is ochraceous, but the fine lateral margin is black, and there is a black dot near each 



