Coleoptera from Ceylon. 211 



Morio trogositoides. 



As stated above under M. Walkeri (p. 143), this is distin- 

 guished from that species bj the thorax being very distinctly 

 triano-ularly excised in the middle of the front margin. The 

 anterior angles of the thorax are very prominent, as in M. 

 orientalis, from which it seems to ditfer only in the frontal 

 foveai not being dilated behind. I have specimens very 

 similar from the Andaman Islands. 



Morio cucujoides, 



I doubt whether the insect referred doubtfully by Chaudoir 

 to M. cucujoides is the same species. The type represents a 

 flat species with red legs, very similar to the widely-distributed 

 M. luzonicuSj but differing in being a little narrower and 

 having impunctate elytral stria3. 



Leistus linearis. 



This is the CelcenepJies parallelus of Schmidt-Gobel, a 

 widely-distributed Indian and Australasian species. The 

 reference of a Truncatipenne allied to Dromius to the genus 

 Leistus must be considered one of Walker's greatest feats of 

 random identification. 



Maraga planigera. 



A small Orthogonius with very broad and short thorax, 

 broadest at the hind angles. 



Harpalus stoUdus. 



This is the tolerably well-known tropical Asian Stenolophus 

 smaragdulus of Fabricius and Dejean. 



Curtonoius compositus. 



I have been unable to examine the type of this species 

 satisfactorily. It is a black closely-punctured Harpalid, with 

 reddish legs and the usual lines of punctures on the alternate 

 elytral interstices characteristic of Platymeto'pus and Seleno- 

 phorus. It may be my Siopelus ferreus. 



Bern h idium Jin itim um . 



Is a Tachys of the section Barytachys ; very glossy casta- 

 neous, with only two (very sharply incised) strise on each 

 side of the suture, and the marginal stride divaricate in the 

 middle of their course ; the frontal strise are short and dupli- 



