290 DYNASTIN^. 



irregular and scanty, upon the disc, closer and finer at the front 

 and sides. The elytra bear rows of annulate, moderately distant 

 punctures and extremely minute punctulations in the interstices. 

 The pyrjidium is coarsely punctured and the metastermira bears 

 large deep crescentic impressions at the sides and rather fine 

 punctures in the middle, and there are also fine and scanty hairs. 



S - The head is smooth and shining, with a simple slender 

 horn, and the prothorax has a shallow broad impression behind 

 the front margin. 



$ . The head is rugosely punctured and bears a tubercle. 



Length 19-22 mm. ; breadth 9-10 mm. 



Centeal India : Mhow; Bombay: Belgamn. 



Type in the British Museum. 



A specimen was found by Mr. H. E. Andre\A"es in the hollow 

 stem of a decayed Mango tree. 



E. perforatus resembles^, platypterus, "Wied., but is rather larger 

 and much less densely punctured, especially upon the prothorax, 

 which is sparingly, though very coarsely, punctured and bears a 

 longitudinal impression absent in the other species. The scu- 

 tellum is without the large punctures present in E. p)latyp)te'rus. 

 The male is most markedly distinguished by the head, which is 

 smooth with a slender horn, while in the older species it is closely 

 punctured and the horn is laterally compressed. 



260. Eophileurus cingalensis. 



Eophileuius cingalensis, Arroio,* Trans, Ent. Soc. Lond. 1908, 

 p. 3:53. 



Black, shining, rather broad and depressed, very coarsely 

 punctured above and very scantily clothed with stiff tawny hairs 

 beneath. The prothorax is strongly rounded at the sides and 

 very strongly punctured all over, the punctures becoming confluent 

 in front. The scutellum is confusedly punctured, and the elytra 

 are closely covered with ro\\s of very large ring-shaped im- 

 pressions, the interstices being minutely and scantily puuctulated. 

 The pygidium is coarsely and rather rugosely punctured and the 

 metasternum decorated with large crescentic impressions, except at 

 the middle, which is almost smooth ; it bears only a few tawny hairs. 



S . There is a short simple horn on the head, which is quite 

 smooth and shining behind it. The pronotum bears a faint 

 median groove, which is rather deeply and more broadly impressed 

 at the front margin. This impression does not reach the middle 

 and its posterior margin bears two very blunt angulations. 



2 . The head is tuberculated and rugosely punctured, and the 

 pronotum bears a very feeble groove upoji its posterior half. 



Length 20 20 mm.; breadth 10-13"5 mm. 



Ceylon : Peradeuiya, Colombo. 



Type in the British Museum. 



