On Geodephajous Goleoptera from Ceylon. 143 



XIV. — On the Oeodej)hagous Goleoptera collectedhy Mr. George 

 Lewis in Ceylon. Bj H. W. BATES, F.R.S. 



[Continued from p. 81.] 



Subfamily Fterosticrinm. 



Morio Walkeri. 



Mario Walkeri, Piitzeys, Ann. Mus. Civ, di Storia Nat. di Genova, iv. 

 p. 216. 



Kandj. 



Morio trogositoides^ Walker (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1858, 

 ii.), according to the type is very similar to M. Walkeri iu 

 general form, but ditfers in the front edge of the thorax being 

 triangularly excised in the middle, as in M. orientalise from 

 which it ditfers in the frontal fovea not being dilated behind. 



Morio cordicollis. 



Morio cordicollis, Chaudoir, Bull. Mosc. 1880, Ess. IMonogr. s. 1. Morio- 

 nides, p. 27. 



Kandy and Balangoda. 



Diceromerus oriental is. 



Diceromerus orientalis, Motschulsky, Etud. Ent. 1859, p. 35 {Stomonnxus 

 orientalis) ; ChHudoir, Ess. Mouogr. s. 1. Drimostomides et les Cra- 

 tocei'ides, p. 15. 



Dikoya, common in refuse. 



Ahacetus atratus. 



Abacetus atratiis,\)ii]. .Sp. Gen. iii. p. 194 ; Chaudoir, Essai Monogr. 

 s. 1. Gen. Ahacetus, p. 3 (Bull. Mosc. lS7d),=I)istriyus cvstatus, 

 Nietner, Ann. & iMag. Nat. Hist. 1858, ii. p. 176. 



Colombo. 



Ahacetus qiiadr ig iittatiis . 



Ahacetus qnadrigattatus, Chaudoir, Essai Monogr. s. I. Geii. Ahacetus, 

 p. 33? 



Kandy, sandy river beds. 



Chaudoir's specimens were from Burma. The Ceylonese 

 insect does not in all ]Doints correspond with his description ; 

 but it does so sufficiently to show that, if it be not the same 

 species, it is only a slight moditication. 



