COCCOSTERPHUS. 73 



2215. Coccosterphus obscurus, sp. n. 



Black, tegmiua piceous sprinkled with small cretaceous spots, 

 in some specimens, as the one here figured, the spots almost form 

 a central transverse fascia ; legs black, the tarsi stramineous ; 

 pronotum tuberculous and finely granulose between the tubercles. 



Fig. 60. — CoccosterjilmH obscurus. 



centrally the tubercles form a longitudinal carination ; posterior 

 process rather slender, laminately convexly gibbous before apex 

 which about reaches the posterior angle of the inner margin of 

 the tegmina ; tegmina very finely granulose at base. 



Length 2^ to 3 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon; Peradeniya, Heneratgoda (G^ree)i). 



2210. Coccosterphus mucronicollis, Motsck. (Anomus) Utud. Ent. 

 viii, p. 109 (1859) ; Melich. (Coccosterphus) Horn. Faun. 

 Ceylon, p. 120 (1903). 



^ Dark purplish-brown, finely greyishly pilose ; body beneath 

 piceous, posterior margins of the abdominal segments dull 

 ochraceous ; femora black, their apices and the tibia3 pale 

 testaceous, tarsi stramineous, the claws piceous ; tegmina purplish- 



Fig. 61. — C'occosterp/ms imwronicollis. 



brow-n sprinkled with small paler spots, base opaque and thickly 

 greyishly pilose, a few greyish-white spots in transverse series 

 usually immediately following the basal area and another similar 

 transverse series at about middle, apical area largely pale hyaline ; 

 pronotum densely pilose above which the tubercles are distinctly 

 visible; posterior process robust, moderately laminately convexly 

 gibbous before apex which does not reach the posterior angle of 

 the inner margin of the tegmina. 



Length 4 to 5 ; breadth lat. pronot. angl. 2 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon ; Kesbewa {Green). 



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