Manchester Mei/ioirs, Ju)/. xliv. (1900), No. 1.%. 53 



Long. iS mm. 



Hab. Ceylon ( Yerbiwy). 



Scape of the antennc-e punctured, covered with stiff 

 white hairs ; the flagelkim with a pale down. Head thickly 

 covered with longish black hair ; the front in the middle, 

 the lower part of the cheeks, and the sides of the clypeus, 

 thickly covered with pale silvery depressed pubescence. 

 Front and vertex strongly and deeply punctured, the 

 puncturing more rugose below the antenn.e ; in the 

 middle of the vertex leading down to the ocelli is a smooth 

 keel. Clypeus smooth and shining ; the sides and apex 

 projecting all round, so that the central part appears 

 hollowed out ; above it the hair is longer than it is on the 

 vertex. Pronotum rugosely punctured above ; the middle 

 with some stout irregular keels ; the lower part smooth. 

 Mesonotum strongly and deepU^ punctured, thickly 

 covered with longish, stiff, black hair ; the two furrows are 

 wide and deep ; in the middle is a smooth shining keel. 

 The scutcllum is raised, rugosely punctured ; the middle 

 is obliquely raised from the base to the apex ; is smooth 

 and very shining ; this central part becomes gradually 

 and slightly wider towards the apex, which distinctly 

 projects ; the upper part is bare ; the lower fringed with 

 long black hair. The post-scutellum has an oblique slope, 

 is smooth and fringed with long black hair. The median 

 segment bulges out roundly in the middle ; it is strongly 

 reticulated except at the sides, which are almost smooth, 

 and bordered on either side by stout longitudinal keels ; 

 the central area is two-thirds of the length of the basal 

 division, and does not reach to its apex ; the basal fourth 

 is wider than the rest, and has the sides oblique ; the apex 

 is rounded. The legs are thickly covered with black hair ; 

 the calcaria and tarsal spines are also black. Wings 

 uniformly dark violaceous ; the second cellule at the top 



