152 ADDENDA. COREIDiE. 



pubescent, first and fourth joints longest and subequal, second 

 and third joints shorter and subequal; lateral margins of the 

 pronotuni coarsely blackly serrate, the lateral angles prominently 

 and somewhat acutely produced, and also black ; posterior femora 

 lamiiiately, angularly developed on each side beneath near apex, 

 posterior tibiae in d strongly angularly developed beneath near 

 base, in $ only moderatelv longitudinally dilated on each side, 

 more prominentl}^ on basal half. 



Length, d" -7, 5 ^'9 ; breadth between pronotal angles 12| 

 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon ; Eatnapura (E. E. Green). 



Allied to M. lateralis. Walk., from Borneo. 



Genus XYROPHOREUS. 



Xjrophoreus, Bredd. Ann. Sac Ent. Bel;/, liii, p. 283 (1909). 



Type, X. tonsor, Bredd. 



Distribution. Ceylon. 



E-elated to Mictis, fourth anteinial joint longer than the third 

 and very little shorter than the iirst : pronotal angles scarcely 

 projecting, the fourth joint of rostrum twice as long as third and 

 longer than second by one-fourth ; femora above without spines; 



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Fig. 75. — Xyruphoreus tonsor. 



posterior femora above and below with a dilated serrated edge, 

 the edge on underside curved and ending before the apex of the 

 femur in a large tubercle inserted at right angles, the middle and 

 anterior femora near apices armed with an angular tooth ; fore 

 and middle tibiae not broadened, posterior tibiae strongly curved 

 above and below, almost in their whole length a little widened, of 

 even width, on the undei'side at base of the apical fifth armed 

 "with an acute tooth pointing beneath and to the front, the 



