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unicolorous, not streaked ^itli black ; structural characters as in 

 tj'pical form of the species. 



Add : Hah. Ceylon ; Hambaiitota (Bainbrir/ge-Fletcher). 



A single specimen taken by Mr. Fletcher, aud the only example 

 from Ceylon which I have seen. 



Genus SERENDIBA. 

 SereDdiha, Dist A. M. N. H. (7) xviii, p. mS (1906). 



Type, S. jnindalaoi/ce, Dist. 



Distribution. Ceylon . 



Body elongate ; head shorter than pronotam, aud \\itli a short 

 tuberculous spine behind the base of each auteuua, postocular 

 area about half as long again as auteocular area, transversely 

 impressed between eyes and attenuated to base ; ocelli situate 

 just behind eyes ; rostrum with the first joint a little longer than 

 second and subequal to the remaining two joints together; antennae 



Fig. 115. — Scroidiha pundaluoya. 



.slender, the first joint about as loug as the posterior femora ; pro- 

 uotum with the posterior lobe about half as loug again as the 

 anterior lobe, which is sculptured and broadly, medially, pos- 

 teriorly impressed, the posterior angles longly porrectly spinous ; 

 scutellum short, robust, medially impressed at base, its apex not 

 acuminate; anterior tibite straight, as long as anterior femora, 

 shorter than [posterior femora ; posterior tibiae longer than the 

 femora. 



Allied to Villanovanus, Dist. (vol. ii, p. 304). 



