genera and species of Languriida. 311 



Paracladoxena trifoliata, Har. 



Cladoxena runpes, Mots. (? var.) ; C. picipes, Mots. 



(verisim). 

 Bright bronze or brownish bronze, very variable in size; shining; 

 head rather plainly punctured ; antennte moderately long, reddish, 

 with club sometimes darker; prothorax broader than long, but 

 somewhat variable in length, convex, with sides rounded in front 

 and contracted behind; posterior angles not so produced as in 

 the preceding species, obsoletely punctured; epipleurae strongly 

 punctured ; elytra strongly widened in front of middle, contracted 

 to base, and rather strongly also to apex ; apices rounded, callose, 

 often dehiscent ; rows of punctures very fine ; legs testaceous, 

 often more or less clouded with fuscous ; under side reddish or 

 reddish brown. L. 2^ — 5 mm. 



This is the most uiimerons species in Mr. Lewis's 

 Ceylon collection. Von Harold has confirmed the species 

 for me, and, as it is certainly his L. trifoliata, I have 

 retained his name, but it may possibly have to be 

 dropped and picipes, Mots., substituted, as Motschulsky's 

 description in many points agrees with it, and the spepies 

 is variable as regards colour of legs, &c. I believe 

 Motschulsky's riifipcs to be a rather more strongly 

 punctured variety of this species. 



Mr. Lewis, in his paper before alluded to {I. c, p. 348), 

 speaks of this species as belonging to a section the 

 individuals of which, while usually clinging to foliage, 

 are, when disturbed, instant in flight; the separately 

 rounded and more or less dehiscent apices of elytra 

 would prove this, even if the habits of the insect had 

 not been observed, and it is possible that the callosities 

 at the apex are connected with their habits, and aid 

 them in rapidly opening or closing the elytra. 



Paracladoxena bipnstulata, n. s. 



Prfficedenti similis, sed prothorace latitudine longiori, elytris pro 

 magnitudine brevioribus, utroque macula flava pone medium 

 prope suturam instructo. L. o — 5 mm. 



Eesembles the preceding in general form, but is very 

 distinct ; the prothorax is very evidently longer, being 

 distinctly longer than broad, so that the elytra appear 

 shorter m proportion than in P. trifoliata; on each 



