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rows of sliort spines along the outer face and armed with a long 

 spiniform process at the apex. 



Lenrith 10 ; breadth 2\ mm, 



Hab. Southern India : ISTilgiri Hills {H. L. Andrewes). 



187. Merionceda taprobanica, sp. u. 



2 . Testaceous yellow, with the exception of the antenna^ and 

 hind legs ; antennte brownish black, with the first joint somewhat 

 reddish at the base ; hind legs black, with the peduncles of the 

 femora and the extreme base of the tibia? yellowish. Head nitid ; 

 feebly and sparsely punctnlate near the eyes, almost impnnctate 

 elsewhere ; clypeus limited above by two deep oblique impressions 

 that meet in the middle. Antennae reaching to the apex of the 

 elytra ; third and fourth joints subeqnal, each shorter than the 

 fifth ; fifth slightly, and the following joints more strongly, dilated. 

 Prothorax glossy, not longer than broad, narrowed anteriorly ; 

 a small obtuse tubercle on each side, and three distinctly 

 raised tubercles on the disc — the median one smaller and narro\^er 

 than the other two and separated from them by sulcate intervals 

 continuous with the deep groove crossing near the apex. The 

 elytra about two and a half times as long as the prothorax, dehisce 

 from about the middle of their length, and are stronglj'^ but not 

 very thickly punctured ; each with a short carina near the apex. 

 Hind femora with an abruptly formed, ovate, black club at the 

 apex ; hind tibioB with two rows of short spines along the dorsal 

 face, and a long spiniform process at the apex. 



Length (to tip of abdomen) about 8 mm. 



Hab. Ceylon : Kandy {ti/j^^ in coll. G. Lewis). 



188. Merionceda nigriceps, Wldte (Heliomanes), Cat. Col. B. M., 



Lowjic. p. It^l, pi. 5, fig. 1 (18o5). 



5 . Testaceous yellow ; with the head, the distal seven joints of 

 the antennae, the tips of the elytra, the clavate portions of the 

 hind femora, and all but the bases of the hind tibia3, brownish 

 black. Head nitid, irregularly punctnlate, the punctures thickly 

 ])laced near the eyes, very sparsely elsewhere ; clypeus separated 

 from the front by a deep impression. Antennae shorter than the 

 body ; third joint scarcely as long as the first or fourth ; fifth and 

 following joints slightly dilated. Prothorax broader than long, 

 obtusely tuberculate near the middle of each side ; feebly grooved 

 near the apex, the groove deflected backwards on the disc so as to 

 form two lines that separate a narrow, median, very feebly raised 

 area from two laterally placed tubercles. Elytra a little more 

 than twice as long as the prothorax, obtusely pointed at the apex, 

 strongly but not densely punctured. Clavate portion of hind 

 femora elongate-ovate or subfusiform, not so short nor so abruptly 

 formed as in M. indica ; hind tibiae with two rows of short spiues 



