PODOPS. /5 



135. Podops cetjlonica, Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) viii, p. 241 (1901). 



Ochraceous, coarsely and darklj punctate ; head, anterior area 

 of pronotum, and a small foveate spot at each basal angle of the 

 scutellum more or less piceous ; scutelluoi with' three small 

 ochraceous spots at base and with two irregular longitudinal 

 series ol: very dark punctures : body beneath piceous, lateral 

 margins of metasternum and abdomen broadly ochraceous ; rostrum 

 and antennae brovvnish-ochraceous, the last with the apical joint 

 piceous ; legs castaneous, tibia3 (excluding bases and also the 

 apices of the anterior tibiae) and the tarsi ochraceous. 



Allied to P. limosa, AValk,, in colour, but to P. affinis, HagL, in 

 structure of the pronotum. 



Length 7 ; breadth batween pronotal angles 4 millim. 



Ifab. Ceylon ; Pomparipo. 



c. Lateral inar(j'ins of pronotum serrate or dentate. 



136. Podops serrata, Voll. Faim. Ind. Neerl. i, p. 42, pi. 3, f. 9 (1863). 



Brownish-ochraceous, thickly, coarsely, and darkly punctate ; 

 head and anterior area of jn'onotum ochraceously pubescent; 

 scutellum with three small ochraceous spots at base: body 

 beneath piceous ; legs piceous, femora castaneous at base, tibiae 

 and tarsi brownish-ochraceous ; rostrum and antennae brownish- 

 ochraceous, the first ^^'ith its apex fuscous. Lateral lobes of the 

 head distinctly longer than the central and widely cleft at their 

 apices ; pronotum with a long, laterally-directed spine at the 

 anterior angles, the lateral angles obtusely spinous, the lateral 

 margins serrate, and with a distinct transverse impression, in front 

 of which the surface is moderately tuberculous ; scutellum a little 

 gibbous at base and with a distinct central longitudinal impression. 



Length 9 to 11 ; breadth between pronotal angles G to 7 millim. 



Hah. Sikhim; Mungphu. Naga Hills. Burma; Bhamo {Coll. 

 Dist.). — Also recorded from Malay Peninsula, Borneo, and 

 Philippines. 



137. Podops dentata Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) viii, p. 242 (1901). 



Pale brownish-ochraceous ; head and pronotum thickly and 

 coarsely punctate, scutellum with the punctures arranged in fine 

 longitudinal series, exposed corium also somewhat longitudinally 

 punctate : body beneath and legs concolorous, femora with a pale 

 annulation near apices ; apical joint of antennae and disks of 

 sternum and abdomen more or less piceous. Rostrum with the 

 lateral margins finely dentate, the anterior lateral angles produced 

 in short laterally-produced spines, lateral angles obtusely spinous ; 

 transversely impressed on anterior disk and behind anterior 

 margin. 



Length 7 ; breadth between pronotal angles 4 millim. 



Hah. Calcutta {Coll. Dist.); Maldah {Atkinson Coll., Brit. Mus.). 



