STENIIOMALUS. 167 



180. Stenhomalus Y-pallidum, Motsch. (Phyton) Bull. Soc. Imp. 

 Nat. de Moscott, p. 495 (1863). 



" Elongate, narrow, parallel-sided, depressed, sparsely punc- 

 tured, very slightly nitid, fusco-piceous. Elytra with four whitish 

 bands, oblique, joined angularly at the suture, the third strongly 

 dilated, the fourth apical, interrupted at the suture ; eyes large, 

 black, somewhat prominent, facetted, closely approximate, deeply 

 emarginate ; antennas and legs ringed with whitish ; thorax 

 narrower than the head, subcylindrical, rugose, clothed with 

 sericeous pubescence, subnodose at the sides. Elytra scarcely 

 broader than the head, parallel-sided, the apex rounded, sparsely 

 pilose. 



" Very close to P. pallidum, Say, from North America, but the 

 thorax is narrower and silky with the elytral bands more distinct, 

 the second band curved so as to form a V." 



Length 5 ; breadth 1 J inni. 



Hab. Ceylon : Xewara-Eliya. 



I have not seen a specimen of this species, but judging from 

 the description it is almost certainly a Stenhomalus, and as the 

 eyes are closely approximate I have placed it in this section. 



B. Eyes smaller, rather widely separated above and below ; 

 antennae without long projecting hairs. 



181. Stenhomalus lateralis, Pascoe (Obrium), Trans. Ent. Soc. (2) v> 

 p. 26 (1850). 



Brownish testaceous ; prothorax with a dark brown band along 

 each side ; elytra each with a dark brown spot near the shoulder, 

 another near the suture at about one-third from the base, and a 

 dark brown ring near the apex, the apex itself and the spot 

 enclosed by the ring yellowish, the lateral border dark brown 

 except near the base and apex ; antennaB with the first joint 

 testaceous, the rest pale yellow; legs yellowish. Eyes rather 

 widely separated above and below. Prothorax nearly twice as 

 long as its width at the base ; very slightly protuberant on each 

 side just before the middle, narrowed distinctly towards the base 

 and very little in front. Elytra slightly dilated posteriorly; 

 distinctly and rather thickly punctate from the base to the middle 

 or a little past the middle, the punctures show a tendency to an 

 arrangement in rows. 



Length 7 ; breadth 2 mm. 



ffab. Ceylon. 



In this species the eyes are widely separated as in the genus 

 Obrium, the antennae are without the characteristic long hairs 

 of the type species, and the prothorax also is longer and not 

 tuberculate at the sides. 



