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pubescent, first and fourth joints longest and subequal, second 

 and third joints shorter and subequal; lateral margins of the 

 pronotum coarsely blackly serrate, the lateral angles prominently 

 and somewhat acutely produced, and also black ; posterior femora 

 latnitiatelv, angularly developed on each side beneath near apex, 

 posterior tibiae in d strongly angularly developed beneath near 

 base, in $ only moderate! v longitudinally dilated on each side, 

 more prominently on basal half. 



Length, d" 27, $ 29 ; breadth between pronotal angles 12| 

 millim. 



Hab. Ceylon ; Ratnapura (E. E. Green). 



Allied to M. latemlis, Walk., from Borneo. 



Genus XYROPHOREUS. 



Xyrophoreus, Bredd, Ann. Soc. Ent. Bely. Hii, p. 283 (1909). 



Type, X. tonsor, Bredd. 



Distribution. Ceylon. 



Related to Mictis, fourth antennal joint longer than the third 

 and very little shorter than the lirst ; pronotal angles scarcely 

 projecting, the fourth joint of rostrum twice as long as third and 

 longer than second by one-fourth ; femora above without spiues ; 



Fig. 15.Xyrophoreus toitsor. 



posterior femora above and below with a dilated serrated edge, 

 the edge on underside curved and ending before the apex of the 

 femur in a large tubercle inserted at right angles, the middle and 

 anterior femora near apices armed with an angular tooth ; fore 

 and middle tibiae not broadened, posterior tibiae strongly curved 

 above and below, almost in their whole length a little widened, of 

 -even width, on the underside at base of the apical fifth armed 

 with an acute tooth pointing beneath and to the front, the 



