Cohoptera f)-or)i Ceylon. 201 



Pheropsophus Catoirei. 



Pheropsophus Catoirei, Dej. Sp. Gt^n. i. p. 301 ; Chaudoir, Monogr. des 

 Brachyn. 1876, p. 14. 



Kandy and Peradeniya. 



Subfamily OitTSoaoNiiN^. 



Orthogonms paraUelus. 

 Orthogonius parallelus, Cbaudoir, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xiv. p. 109. 



Subfamily Tetraqonodbrin^. 



Tetragonoderus notaphioides. 



Tetragoiioderus nofaphioideSj'Motschulfikj, Bull. Mosc. 18G1, i. p. 99; 

 Cbaudoir, Etude Monogr. des Masor6ide3, des Tetragonod^rides, &c. 

 1876, p. 64. 

 Dikoya, at high elevations, in refuse. 



A species allied to the widely-distributed T. arcuatus. In 

 addition to the subapical pale fascia, it has a subbasal macular 

 belt extending from the second to tlie seventh interstice, and 

 a lateral spot nearer the middle on the seventh and eighth inter- 

 stices, the surface having a changing silky gloss. Mr. Lewis 

 obtained a good series of the species ; in some specimens the sub- 

 basal fascia is very faint towards the suture. The thorax has a 

 few ochreous spots, apparently formed of fine tomentum, as 

 in the allied species. 



Tetragonoderus cursor. 



T. dilatato (Wiedm.) afRnis ; difFert elytrorum fasciis multo angusti- 

 oribus aiiterioreque marginem baud attiugente, etc, Fuscescenti- 

 cupreus, sericeus ; antennis, palpis et pedibus melleo-flavis ; elytris 

 fasciis maculosis angustis duabus, apud interstitia secundo ad 

 octavum, anteriore versus suturam e maculis segregatis formata ; 

 capita tboraceque relative parvis, sericeo-aeneis ; elytris ampliatis, 

 margine basali minus oblique quam in T. dilatato, angulisque 

 humeralibus minus aeutis. 



Long. 7. millim. 



Kandy, in the moist sand of river-beds. 



Belongs to the same section as T. dilatatus, in which the 

 intermediate tarsi in the male have four rather broad dilated 

 joints. The hind legs are much elongated and the middle 

 femora in the male abruptly dilated beneath and armed with 

 short spines. The elytral fasciee are about half the width of 

 those of T. dilatatus, but the spots or lineoles of which they 

 are composed have the same proportion inter se as they have 

 in that species, as far as the eighth interstice, where tiiey end 

 in T. cursor. 



