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unicolorous, not streaked with black ; structural characters as in 

 typical form of the species. 



Add : Hob. Ceylon ; Hambantota (Bainbrigge-Fletcher). 



A single specimen taken by Mr. Fletcher, and the only example 

 from Ceylon which I have seen. 



Genus SERENDIBA. 

 Serendiba, Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) xviii, p. 368 (1906). 



Type, S. pundaluoyce, Dist. 



Distribution. Ceylon. 



Body elongate ; head shorter than pronotum, and with a short 

 tuberculous spine behind the base of each antenna, postocular 

 area about half as long again as anteocular area, transversely 

 impressed between eyes and attenuated to base ; ocelli situate 

 just behind eyes ; rostrum with the first joint a little longer than 

 second and subequal to the remaining two joints together; antenna 



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ig. 115. Serendiba pundaluoya. 



slender, the first joint about as long as the posterior femora ; pro- 

 uotum with the posterior lobe about half as long again as the 

 anterior lobe, which is sculptured and broadly, medially, pos- 

 teriorly impressed, the posterior angles longly porrectly spinous ; 

 scutellum short, robust, medially impressed at base, its" apex not 

 acuminate; anterior tibiae straight, as long as anterior femora, 

 shorter than [posterior femora ; posterior tibi* longer than the 

 femora. 



Allied to Villanovanus, Dist. (vol. ii, p. 364). 



