170 



CUKCULIONII),!:. 



narrowed from the base to the middle, scrobicidate and shallowlj 

 impressed above, with a narrow deep furrow in the basal half, a 

 fine juxta-raarginal carina running from the apex to just above 

 the eye, and a shorter lateral carina meeting the anterior margin 

 of the eye. Antemue red-brown, the funit-le with the first joint 

 evidently longer than the second. Prothorax longer than broad, 

 its sides very strongly rounded, broadest before the middle, sharply 

 constricted at the apex, its greatest width almost equal to the 

 greatest width of the elytra, very convex above, finely and closely 

 granulate and -with a fine central stria which does not quite reach 

 the apex. Elytra subtruncate at the base, not constricted laterally, 



Fig. 52. — Sijiitjyiczondas /iraaf;/. Ilellei*. 



but with the sides regularly rounded from the external angle, 

 broadest about the middle, distinctly punctato-striute, the intervals 

 broad, slightly convex and all equally raised, the setae very short, 

 dense and suberect. Legs red-brown, the front femora darker 

 and wrinkled at the apex ; the intermediate tibia? with a short 

 internal apical spine, the hind pair having the corbels clothed with 

 long dense goldeu setje inside and out. 



Length, 7 mm. ; breadth, 3 mm. 



Ceylon: Kandy and Paradna {Dr. Waltlier Horn) ; Jaffna {E. E. 

 Green — Ind. Mus.). 



Type S ill the Dresden Museum. 



133. Sympiezomias metallescens, sp. uov. 



Colour black, with grey scaling, the sides of the prothorax and 

 elytra with a broad ill-defined stripe of metallic green, and a few 

 scattered green scales on the disk of the elytra. 



Head rugosely striolate, with a narrow central furrow. Rostrum 

 longer than broad, its sides subparallel, not impressed above, 

 longitudinally wrinkled and with a deej) narrow furrow. Pro- 

 thorax about as long as broad in the d , a little broader in the $ , 



