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antennae slender, basal joint trigonal, strongly dilated, very slender 

 at base. Thorax about two-thirds broader than long, regularly 

 cylindrical, feebly narrowed in front, sides straight, posterior 

 angles distinct, medial lobe feebly produced, surface entirely 

 smooth. Scutellurn slightly elongate. Elytra scarcely perceptibly 

 punctured, one black spot near suture oblong, the other smaller 

 near the margin. Legs, as well as the tarsi, rather long ; anterior 

 tarsi distinctly elongate. 



Var. a. Elytral spots nearly indistinct. 



Var. 6. Elytra without any spots. 



Length 4| mm. 



Hob. India. 



It is possible that specimens occur in which the elytra have 

 four spots each, since Hiibner speaks of a specimen with an 

 additional spot at middle near margin. 



298. Ceratobasis ceylonensis, sp. n. 



Fulvous ; the terminal joints of the antennae and the breast 

 black, the head and thorax with two 

 black spots; elytra each with a black 

 transverse short band at the base and 

 another behind the middle. 



3 . Anterior tibiae elongate, strongly 

 curved. 



Head fulvous, very broad, transversely 

 grooved between the eyes, the latter 

 with a black spot in front of each ; 

 clypeus with a shallow semicircular de- 

 pression, triangularly emarginate at the 

 sides and in the middle ; labrum black ; 

 antennae black, extending Co the base of 

 the thorax, the basal three joints fulvous, 

 basal joint strongly, subquadrately 

 Fie 69 widened, fourth and following joints 



Ceratobasis 'ceylonensis. transverse. Thorax twice as broad as 

 long, the sides and the posterior angles 



rounded, the basal margin scarcely lobed at the middle; the 

 surface convex, impunctate, fulvous, with two widely separated, 

 black, elongate and slightly curved spots, not extending to the 

 anterior but to the posterior margin. Scutellum triangular. 

 Elytra fulvous, subquadrate, without basal humeral lobes, very 

 minutely granulate and impressed with fine very obsolete 

 punctures, the basal margin raised into a fine ridge ; each elytron 

 with a transverse, short, black band below the base and another 

 one, slightly narrowed at its inner portion, behind the middle, 

 neither of these bands extends to either margin. Anterior coxae 

 black, rest of the underside and the legs fulvous, anterior femora 

 and their tibia? with a narrow black upper edge. 



