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from the middle forward, and with a very deep, long, oblique, 

 smooth furrow on each side of the disc anteriorly, the two grooves 

 extending upward and there separated by a narrow cariniform 

 backward prolongation of the apical portion of the pronotum; 

 anterior tibiae compressed and somewhat broadly widened, concave 

 beneath, sinuous within, and obliquely truncated at the tip; 

 joint of anterior tarsi much thickened. 

 Length (with head extended) :,}, 6, breadth I! 1! mm. (<J$.) 



Bob. Ceylon, Nuwara Elia [Nura Ellia] (type), Boga- 

 wantalawa, alt, 4900-5200 ft, (G. Lewis). 



The above description is taken from two pairs captured 

 by Lewis. Motschulsky's diagnosis would apply to the 

 2, except that he gives the length as 2 lines only ; but as 

 his type was from a not very distant locality, it may belong 

 to the same species? The structure of the <J-prothorax 

 is remarkable, the very deep, oblique, smooth furrow on 

 each of the antero-lateral portions of the disc appearing 

 at first sight to be due to some injury. Fairmaire's .1/. 

 pallipes, Motsch. (1888), (M. tonkinea, Fairm. in litt.). from 

 Tonkin, cannot be the same species. 



15. Macratria punctigera, n. sp. 



Moderately elongate, shining, sparsely clothed with rather long, 

 decumbent, brownish-cinereous hairs; black, the antennae, mouth- 

 parts, palpi, and tarsi (joint 1 of the posterior pair except rd) testaceous 

 or obscure testaceous, the knees reddish. Head large, broad, 

 rounded at the sides posteriorly, truncate and emarginate at the 

 base, sparsely, minutely punctate; eyes very large, rounded, some- 

 what prominent; antennae slender, joints 9- 1 I elongated and 

 thickened, 1 1 nearly as long as 9 and 10 united; maxillary palpi with 

 a moderately long, cultriform apical joint. Prothorax very little 

 longer than broad, convex, oval, narrower than the head, obliquely 

 compressed on the flanks posteriorly, rather sparsely punctate, the 

 basal groove deep. Elytra much wider than the head, moderately 

 long, very gradually narrowing from the base; rather co 

 punctato-striate to near the apex, the apical portion closely punctate, 

 the interstices narrow, somewhat convex, and very sparsely punctu- 

 late, the interstitial puncturing becon i and regularly 



uniseriate at the sides. Pygidium rounded at tip. Femora moder- 

 ately clavate. Basal joint of anterior tarsi no1 very stout, that of 

 the posterior pair about half the length of the tibia. 



Length 4| mm. (<J?) 



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