312 Eev. W. W. Fowler on new 



elytron there is a distinct yellow spot or patch behind 

 middle near suture, which at once distinguishes the 

 species ; as a rule the punctuation of prothorax and 

 elytra is very fine and obsolete, but in one small speci- 

 men before me it is much stronger than in others, the 

 prothorax being almost as strongly punctured as in 

 C. macidata. Under side, legs, and antennse as in the 

 preceding species. 



Ceylon. In Mr. Lewis's collection ; five specimens 

 from" Nuwara Eliya (6234 — 8000 ft.), and one from 

 Bogawantalawa (4900—5200 ft.). 



MiCROCLADOXENA, n. g. 



If the rules of nomenclature will allow it, I propose, 

 with Mr. Lewis's permission, to adopt this generic name 

 for the insect named by Crotch {L. /) Jansoni (Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., ix., 1885), which he says " forms the type of a 

 distinct genus, with coarsely granulated eyes, elongate 

 antennae, a three-jointed club, and short tarsi." This 

 species was afterwards named Microlcmguria Jansoni by 

 Mr. G. Lewis ; it evidently, however, by its structure, 

 comes very near to Cladoxena, and Mr. Lewis tells me 

 that it resembles Cladoxena in its habit of resting on the 

 higher branches of brushwood, and in this differs from 

 Languria, which lives on the herbage ; the change of 

 name therefore seems much to be desired. The species 

 is very small (2^ — 3|- mm.), entirely of a light castaneous 

 or rufo-ferruginous colour ; the much shorter tarsi, more 

 parallel form, and more cylindrical elytra, as well as the 

 more coarsely granulated eyes, will distinguish it from 

 the two preceding genera, with which, however, it is 

 clearly connected by the structure of the antennae and 

 tarsi. In some points it forms a transition between 

 Crotchia and Cladoxena, in others between Cladoxena 

 and Lanf/uria. The species is common both in -Japan 

 and in parts of Ceylon. 



Besides the species above mentioned Mr. Lewis's col- 

 lection contains five or six of the ordinary forms of Lan- 

 guria with red thorax and cyaneous elytra ; four of these 

 apparently belong to L. ceylonica, Har. ; the dark legs 

 and red coxae are characteristic of the species : a fifth is 

 apparently L.yit^rij^es, Mots., while another appears to 

 agree with the description of L. nigriventris, Mots. In 



