116 CEUAMBTCID,?:. 



gradually and successively shorter ; eleventh longer than the tenth 

 in the c? • Prothorax transverse, slightly rounded at the sides ; 

 broader in front than at tlie base, especially in the cS . Elytra 

 long, parallel-sided, rounded or truncate at the apex, sometimes 

 armed with short spines or teeth. Legs moderately long : femora 

 slightly compressed, broader towards the middle, the hind pair 

 not reaching to the apex of the elytra. Acetabula of front coxge 

 angulate outwards and open posteriorly ; intercoxal process of pro- 

 sternum sharply deflexed posteriorly and narrowed towards the end, 

 that of the mesosternummuch broader and emai'ginate posteriorly. 



110. Zoodes maculatlis, Wlu'fe (Stromatium ?), Cat. Col. B. M., Lonqic. 



p. 301, pi. 7, fig-. 4 (1855) ; Fascoe, A. M. N. H. (3) xix, p. 319 

 (1867) ; Lacord. Gen. Coleopt. viii, p. 282 (18G9). 



Yellowish-testaceous, faintly covered above with a short greyish 

 pubescence ; prothorax narrowly black at the front margin, 

 marked on the disc in both sexes witli two small black tubercles 

 placed transversely before the middle ; elytra paler than the 

 thorax, narrowly and more or less completely bordered Avith black 

 along the outer margin, marked on the disc of each with black 

 spots or fasciae : — one small spot, occasionally absent, a little 

 behind the middle of the base, two spots, usually forming a 

 narro\^' oblique band, placed a little before the middle, and two 

 spots forming an angulate, somewhat V-shaped, fascia, at a greater 

 distance behind the middle, the outer ends of these two bands 

 sometimes joined by a dark longitudinal streak. Antennte 

 testaceous ; the first joint strongly and somewhat abruptly 

 thickened in the c? , with an irregular depression at the side 

 where the thickening begins, the same joint gradually and less 

 strongly thickened in the 5 • Prothorax of the S broad in 

 front and gradually narrowed from the middle to the base ; 

 that of the 5 feebly tuberculate at the middle of each side, 

 slightly narrowed in front as well as towards the base and 

 with three feeble elevations on the disc near the base. Elytra 

 each rounded externally at the apex, somewhat truncate towards 

 the suture and armed at the suture with a slender spine. Body 

 beneath and legs with a faint covering of grey pubescence. 



Lenrjfli 16-31 ; breadth 4|-9 mm. 



Hah. Ceylon. 



111. Zoodes quadridentatus, sp. n. 



Nearly allied to Z. onacidatus, White, with a close general 

 resemblance to that species ; the apex of each elytron distinctly 

 truncate and bidentate, the tooth at the outer angle as strong 

 as that at the suture and the first autennal joint in the male 

 gradually and less strongly thickened. Prothorax margined with 

 black btiiind as well as in front, with an arcuate black band on 

 the lower ])art of each side. In the female the black markings- 

 on the elytra are very much as in Z. maculatus ; in the male the 



