Cvleoptera fioni Ceylon. 73 



Dyschirias ordinatus . 

 Dyschirms ordinatus, Bates, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1873, p. 240. 



Kandj. 



I can discover no difference of specific importance between 

 a Ceylonese example and others taken by Mr. Lewis in Japan 

 described under the above name. 



Subfamily Peleciinjs. 

 Disphcericus ovicollis. 



Niger, politus ; anteauis pedibusque testaceo-rutis, palpis tiavo-testa- 

 ceis ; capite ante oculos eloDgato-oblong-o ; thorace subelougato- 

 ovato, lateribus marginatis ; elytris elongato-ovatis, utriuque siriis 

 octo creuato-punctatis quaruin G-7 abbreviatis et vix impressis. 



Long. 3^ Hn. $ . 



Anderson's Estate, Dikoya. One example, Jan. 10th. 



Differs from D. jnarginicoUis, Schaum, the only other 

 described Asiatic species, by its larger size and the long, 

 narrow, ovate form of its thorax. In the latter feature it 

 differs also from the African species. The thorax attains 

 its greatest width immediately behind its anterior angles, 

 which are depressed and applied closely to the sides of the 

 neck ; it continues thence of nearly the same width to beyond 

 the middle, whence it narrows very gradually to the base ; 

 the sides are very distinctly margined, the sharp marginal 

 groove having a setiferous puncture at about its middle, and 

 the posterior declivity of the convex and impunctate surface 

 is nearly vertical. The elytra are also much narrower than 

 in the other known species ; the tirst live strias from the 

 suture are deeply impressed, the first and second uniting near 

 the base and thence continuing to the basal margin, which 

 the third also reaches, whilst the fourth and fifth terminate 

 before the base, the fifth joining the sixth behind and ter- 

 minating at about the middle of the elytron. None of the 

 etriai except the marginal one quite reaches the apex. 



Subfamily Panag^inm. 



Epicosmus Casielnaui. 



Epicosmus Casielnaui, Chaudoir, EssaiMonogr. s. 1. Panag(5ides (1878), 

 p. 32, = Panaffceus hifasciatus, Casteln. Et. Ent. p. 155. 



Colombo. 



