On GeodepJiagous Coleoptera from Ceylon. 199 



XVIII. — On the GeodepJiagous Coleoptera collected hy Mr. 

 George Lewis in Ceylon.' By H. W. BATES, F.R.S. 



[Concluded from p. 15G.] 



Subfamily Lacrnofrothnje:. 



Selina Westermanm. 



Selina Westermanni, Motscliulsky, Etud. Ent. 1857, p. 110, t. i. fig'. 6; 

 Schaum, Berl. eut. Zeit. 1860, p. 172, t. iii. fig'. 11 a, b { = Pselapha- 

 nax setoms, Walker, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1859, iii. p. 52) ; Water- 

 house, Aids to Identif, no. 15, pi. exx. 



Peradeniya; running in moist places in the half-dry river. 

 Subfamily Odacantsinm. 



OpMonea cyanocephala. 



Ophionea cyanocephala, Fabr. Eut. Syst. Siippl. p. 60; Dej. Sp. Gen. 

 i. p. 173. 



Colombo, in marshes. 



Ophionea inter stitialis. 

 Ophionea infer stitialis, Schmidt-Gobel, Faun. Col. Birm. p. 20. 

 Colombo, in marshes. 



Casnonia hmmorrho'idalis. 



Casnonia h(Bmorrhoidalis, Motschulsky, Bull. Mosc. 1864, ii. p. 219 ; 

 Chaud. Bull. Mosc. 1872, i. p. 404. 



Colombo, in marshes. 



This species must be very near Nietner's C. punctata (Ann. 

 & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1858), but his description does not agree 

 in many points, especially in the colour of the palpi, base of 

 antenna, and legs. 



Subfamily Polystichinjs. 



Planetes simplex. 



E. eleganti (Nietner) affinis ; diiFert colore supra toto nigro ; episto- 

 mate, partibus oris, antennis pedibusque rufo-testaceis ; capite 

 thoraceque politis discrete punctatis, vertice medio impunctato ; 

 thorace sat angusto, subcordato, angulis posticis subacutis, mar- 

 gine tenui angiistissime reflexo ; elytris subopacis, lineis totis fere 

 lequaliter elevatis. 



Long. 7 millim. 



Peradeniya ; dry sandy bed of river. 

 One example only. 



