CLAPMABIUS. 



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1359. Harpedona marginata, sp. u. 



Black ; base of first joint of 

 antennae, coxae, trochanters, legs, 

 rostrum, and lateral margins of 

 corium stramineous ; abdomen 

 beneath ochraceous, the margins 

 and apex piceous ; pronotal collar 

 and anterior lobe shining blaclc, 

 posterior lobe subopaque, finely 

 andobscm'ely punctate, and shortly 

 pilose ; an apical line on upper 

 surface of posterior femora, and 

 the posterior tibiae, excluding 

 apices, pale fuscous. 



Var. Corium excluding claviis 

 pale fuscous-brown. 

 Length 3k millim. 

 Hab. Ceylon ; Peradeniya 

 (Greeji). 

 The type with the corium wholly black is in the British 

 Museum ; a series of specimens since received from Mr. Green 

 constitute the variety described above. 



Punctures the foliage of Dioscorea sp., and causes considerable 

 injury to this yam-plant {E. E. Green). 



Fig. 266. — Harpedona marginata. 



Genus CLAPMARIUS, uov. 



Type, G. turgidus, Dist. 

 Distribution. Ceylon. 



Body elongately subovate ; head somewhat long and triangularly 

 produced in front, distinctly centrally 

 sulcated : eyes somewhat large, ex- 

 tending from near base of antennae to 

 anterior margin of pronotum ; antennae 

 with the first joint about as long as 

 pronotum, pilose, much ampliately 

 incrassate, profoundly attenuated at 

 base, narrowed at apex, second joint 

 slender, about half as long again as 

 first ; rostrum about reaching the 

 posterior coxa? (as seen on carded 

 specimen) ; pronotum rugulose, moi'e 

 than twice as broad at base as at 

 apex, anteriorly constricted near an- 

 terior margin ; mesonotum exposed ; 

 scutellum finely transversely striate ; 

 corium a little widened posteriorly, 

 its apical angle acute, and with an apparent foveation at apex 

 of clavus which is broad and long ; cuneus a little longer thau 

 broad, the fracture profound ; legs mutilated in typical specimen. 



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Fig. 267. 

 Clapmarius turgid us. 



