66 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vor. Se 
female in the present series measures: entire length I9-22°5 mm.; 
the pronotum 18-21 mm. Serville (/.c.) gives the entire length of 
male and female as 21 mm. 
Scelimena gavialis, Saussure. 
Scelymena gavialis, Sauss., Ann. Soc. Ent. France, iv, p. 845, 
1861; Scelymena nodosa, Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. Brit. 
Mus., Be PGs 1871; Sceltmena gavialts, Hancock, Spol. 
Zeylan., , Pp. 154, pl. 1, fig. 4, 1904. 
Re eee W. P. Ceylon (Hancock coil.) ; Madul- 
sima, Ceylon (7. B. Fletcher, Hancock coll.). Ind. Mus. coll. 
This black species has the pronotum in front, the tip of the 
hind process, and the lateral spine on each side bright coral-red. 
In the Ceylonese species Jogani, Hanc., the coral-red is replaced 
with yellow, and the posterior angles of the lateral lobes of the 
pronotum are armed on each side with a spine and a denticle as 
indicated in the table. 
Scelimena ?% producta, Brunner. 
Brunner reports this species from Carin Cheba in Rev. Syst. 
Orth., p. 103, 1893, and the previously reported habitat of this 
species is Java. The female representative which Brunner re- 
ferred to, is much larger than the typical S. producta, Serville, and 
I think it is the species which I have described as Eugavialidium 
discalis, Hancock. 
Scelimena spinata, sp. nov. 
Near Scelimena harpago, Serv. Body above on the pronotum 
ferrugineous and greyish-fuscous, often more reddish on the disc, 
marked with ochre or yellow, the femoral denticles below light 
yellow. Vertex toward the front narrower than one of the eyes, 
not so distinctly narrowed forward as in gavialis, widened back- 
ward between the eyes; paired ocelli placed between the lower 
part of the eyes; antennae inserted distinctly below the eyes; 
frontal costa protuberant between the antennae. Pronotum 
truncate anteriorly, the front margin devoid of produced tubercles, 
but the lateral margins below the eyes bearing a minute tubercle, 
subelevated, on each side; dorsum rather smooth, not at all 
deeply fossulate, between the shoulders convex, the disc before 
the shoulders bearing two short supernumerary carinulae and 
minute side offshoots forward; behind the disc depressed, and on 
the dorsum above the hind femota bearing two pairs of very low 
nodes more or less carinated, the hind pair longer and nearer 
together; median carina of pronotum very low, thin, and percur- 
rent; lateral carinae extended forward but less distinct on the 
shoulders, and barely behind the apices of the humeral angles the 
margin little compressed obtuse dentate; the lateral carinae at 
the terminus forward subdentate; hind process very long pro- 
