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DYNASTiy.i, 



extending backwards beyond the middle in a well-developed 

 specimen), the cavity almost smooth and its posterior margin 

 bearing two slight vertical tubercles placed close together. 



2 . The cephalic carina is rounded above and scarcely visibly 

 notched in the middle. The pronotum is relatively narrower than 

 in the male, convex above and entirely coarsely rugose, with an 



Fig. 7G. — Bipelicits hidois, male, natural size, with lateral view of the anterior 

 part and diagrammatic iigures of the stridulatiug files of D. bideus (above) 

 and I), cantator (below). 



indication of a very narrow smooth median longitudinal line. 

 The propygidium is a little less produced and the pygidium is 

 prominent and feebly granulated, except a small median area. 



Length 31 mm. ; breadth 16 mm. 



Cetlox : Kandy. 



Type in the British Museum. 



A single male has been presented to the Museum bv Mrs. 

 Christopher Morris. There is a female from the same locality in 

 Herr C. Sternberg's collection and one has been sent to me by 

 Mr. H. Maxwell Lefroy. In M. Eene Oberthiir's collection are 

 a male and female from the Castelnau collection bearing the 

 locality Madras. They are smaller and uniformly reddish in 

 colour, but in other respects agree with the type. 



