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Genus ORYXA. (A^)l. Ill, p. 439.) 



Oryx.v truxcata. (Vo]. Ill, p. -139, fit;;. 2133.) 



Poeciloptora addita, Walk. Lid Horn, ii, ]). 448 (18.")1). 



Poeciloptera plana. Walk. l<>c. cii. p. 4G-J. 



Colobestlies t'alcata, Melich. (part.), Aiin. JIofDiiis. Jl'tt'ii, xvii, 



p. 4;3 (1903). 

 Ory.xa tnmcata, Ih'st. Jicc. Iiid. Mus. v, p. 32i> (1910). 



Add: Hah. S. Cevlmi. Java, Borneo. 



Genus FORCULUS. 

 Forculus, Dist. A. M. ]\\ H. (8) ix, p. 404 (1912). 



Type, F. pecidiaris, Dist. 



Distribution. Ceylon. 



Head twice as long as the pronotuni, slightly ascendent 

 anteriorh", anterior margin angularly rounded, lateral margins 

 slightly sinuate, eyes large, at base of head overlapping the 

 anterior angles of the pronotum ; face longer than broad, concave, 

 its anterior margin convex, angularly widened on eacli side before 

 eyes ; clypeus about half as long as face, with a slight central 

 longitudinal ridge; pronotum a little more than twice as broad as 

 long, its anterior margin more or less truncate between eyes and 

 oblique behind eyes ; mesonotum strongly tricarinate, posteriorly 

 angulate, a little more than twice as long as pronotum ; legs 

 somewhat short and robust ; femora longitudinally sulcate, com- 

 pressed, posterior femora with a somewhat long and very distinct 

 slender spine at apices ; tibiss moderately compressed, sulcate, 

 posterior femora with three spines on apical area ; basal joint of 

 tibiae short and thickened ; rostrum reaching the intermediate 

 coxie ; tegmina elongate, widest at basal area, where the costal 

 margin is strongly convexly arched, distinctly narrowed on apical 

 third, costal membrane and about apical half strongly transversely 

 veined, clavus more faintly transversely veined, very obsoletely 

 granulate, apex of tegmen roundly truncate ; wings broader than 

 tegmina, posteriorly dilated at anal area, two transverse veins on 

 apical areas. 



Allied to the Neotropical genus Cyarda, Walk., and to be 

 placed near the beginning of the Division SeUzaria. 



3293. Forculus peculiaris, Dist. A. M. A\ H. (8) ix, p. 465 (1912). 



Head, pronotum, and mesonotum dull brownish ochraceous 

 with darker mottlings ; apex of mesonotuni shining, greyish 

 white; abdomen above greenish ochraceous, some of the segmental 

 margins narrowly sanguineous ; head beneath, sternum, and legs 

 dull pale brownish ochraceous, concave disk of face moi-e piceous; 



