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differs in the much broader thorax with sides more regularly 

 arcuated, so that it is not narrower behind than in front, and 

 by the duller and less golden-bronze colour of the elytra. All 

 six tarsi have a fine sulcus on each side, and the fourth joint 

 of the posterior pair is lobed on its outer side. The first 

 elytral puncture is near the third stria, the second and third 

 near the second stria. 



Colpodes iteratus. 



C. specidatori (Harold) affiuis, differt tantum thorace angusto mar- 

 gine angustius explanato-reflexo et ante augulos posticos (valde 

 obtusos) siiiuato. Gracilis, rufo-testaceus, abdomine piceo, capite 

 thoracisque disco uigris, nitidis ; elytris olivaceo-seueis, margine 

 testaceo ; capite parvo mox post oculos citius angustato, oculis 

 promiiiulis ; thorace anguste ovato vel leviter cordate ; elytris 

 anguste oblongis, postice paullo latioribus, apice inermibus leviter 

 sinuatis , subpuu ctulato - stri ati s . 



Long. 6-8 millim. 



Dikoya and Nuwara Eliya, in wet places. 



Belongs with C. speculator (Hav.) ^ japonicus (Motsch.), and 

 aurelius (Bates) to a group of Chaudoir's Division III., dis- 

 tinguished by the hindmost tarsi having no groove on the 

 inner side and their fourth joint being sim])ly emarginated, 

 not unilobular. In their colours they all resemble G. lamp)roSj 

 C. modestior, C. sylphisj and others, in which the same tarsi 

 have a fine groove on each side (not visible viewed from 

 above) and a unilobular fourth joint. 



Subfamily Perigoninm. 



Perigona nigrifrons. 

 Nestra nigrifrons, Motschulsky, Etud. Eut. 1859, p. 38. 

 Bogawantalawa. 



Perigona rujicollis. 



Perigona nijxcollis, Motsclaulsky, Bull, Mosc. 1851, iv. p. 506 (^Nestra 

 rujicollis) ; Putzeys, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, iv. p. 222. 



Kandy. 



The three dorsal setiferous punctures of the elytra in the 

 examples which I refer to P. rujicollis^ and which agree pre- 

 cisely in the described colours, are very conspicuous, and the 

 third placed close to the apex. It varies in length from 3 to 

 3^ millim. 



Perigona sinuaticollis. 



P. rvficolU similis, scd differt thoracis lateribus postice valde sinuatis, 

 angulis posticis rectis ; rufo-testacea, capite nigro, elytris plaga 



