76 Mr. H. W. Bates on Oeodephagous 



Subfamily Uailpalinje. 



Platymetopas senilis, 

 Ophonus senilis, Nietuer, Journ. As. Soc. Beug. 1857, p. loO. 

 Colombo. 



Flatytnatopiis colomhensis. 

 Selenophorus colombensis, Nietuer, Journ. As, Soc. Beug. 1857, p. 151. 



Colombo, in raavslies. 



This species would be almost equally well placed in the 

 American genus Selenophorus, to which Nietner referred it, as 

 in Platymetopus, but the short and obtuse front part of the head 

 and flatter though not perhaps broader forehead show that it 

 belongs to an aberrant group of Platymetojjus, in which the 

 head is smaller than in the typical section, and not to Seleno- 

 phorus. The species very much resembles such species as 

 Selenophorus discopunctatus ; in its finely punctured elytral 

 interstices it has less of the character of Selenophorus than 

 the smooth P. amoenus. Cardiaderus scitus, Walker, Ann. 

 & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 3, ii. 1858, p. 203, according to the 

 type in the British Museum, belongs to this species. 



Amblystomus [Megaristerus) indicus. 



Me(jaridenis indicus, Nietuer, Aun. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 3, ii. l8o8, 

 p. 428. 



Kitugalle. 



Siopelus ferreus. 



Elongato-oblongus, chalybeo-uiger, subnitidus ; palpis, antennis pedi- 

 busque rufo-testaceis ; elytris brevissime pubesceutibus, subcrebre 

 punctulatis, striatis, interstitiis tertio, quinto et septimo puuctis 

 nonnullis majoribus ; capite medio Itevi, lateribus grosse disperse 

 punctate ; tborace breviter cordato-quadrato, angulis posticis fere 

 rectis, disco Isevi, limbo sparsim, basi utriuque crebrius, punctulato. 



Long. 8 millim. J ? • 



Nuwara Eliya. 



Like an Ophonus in form and punctuation, but more nearly 

 allied to Platymetopus, from which the shape of the emargina- 

 tion of the mentum — not semiovate, but with oblique sides 

 formino- a distinct angle with the straight bottom, which is 

 destitute of tooth — readily distinguishes it. The frontal 

 fovea3 are a little prolonged on their outer side, but do not 

 form a stria extending to the eye. The genus is hitherto 

 known only from tropical Africa east and west. 



