Coleoptera from Ceylon. 75 



Chlcenius leucops. 



Chlanius leucops, Wiedemann, Zool. Mag. 2, i. p. 62; Chaudoir, 

 Mouogr. p. 71. 



Colombo, in garden, April 14tli. 



Chlcenms melanopterus. 

 Chlcenius melanopterus, Chaudoir, Monogr. des Chl^niens (1876), p. 226 P 



Peradeniya, in river bed. 



The determination of this species is not quite satisfactory. 

 It agrees with Chaudoir's description as far as the description 

 is intelligible, which it is only in part, the author comparing 

 his species simply with another new one existing only in his 

 own collection. His specimens came from Siam j the Cey- 

 lonese species is probably therefore distinct, but in what points 

 it is impossible to indicate. 



HoJohius nitidulus. 



Hololeius nitiduhis,'Deje{m, Sp. Gen. ii. ^. ?A\,= Chlcenius cexjlanicus, 

 Nietner, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, xix. p. 241, 



Kandy, in sandy river beds. 



Subfamily Coding. 



Oodes vilis. 

 Oodea vtlis, Chaudoir, Bull. Mosc. 1857, iii. p. 32. 

 Colombo. 



Subfamily Anisodactylin^. 



A nisodactylus dispellens. 



Harpalus dispellens, Walker, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 3, iii. 1859, 

 p. 51. 



Kandy. 



Compared with the type specimen in the British Mu- 

 seum. The species agrees with European and North- 

 American Anisodactyli in all essential characters, but differs 

 much from them in facies, owing to the rounded hind 

 angles of the thorax and the large prominent eyes and much 

 narrower neck. In these respects it also difiers from Selena- 

 ])1iorus ortenfali's, Dej., which is also an Amsodactylus, or 

 belongs to a closely allied genus, diftering in the setose upper 

 surface of the tarsi and the narrower dilated joints of the 

 middle tarsi in the male. Anisodactylus dispellens is a widely 

 distributed insect in tropical Asia, being found in Siam and 

 at Hong Kong and Fu-chau in China. 



