Scolytidaa /row Ceylon. 319 



Cryphalua fuliginosua, sp. n. 



Oblongo-ovalis, opacus, fuligineo-f uscus, bievissime pilosus, antennis 

 pcdibusquc fcrruijiru'is, ouruin clava ovali, suturis raediocritcr 

 curvatis : prothoraco subhcmisphjvrico, antice constricto, lateribus 

 modicc, apic-e fortius rotundato, dorso gibboso, anterius pbiga 

 tuberculoruni mox ad basin angulatim producta asperato, poste- 

 rius hiteralitor graiiulato ; olytris prothorace scsqui aiiiplius 

 longioribus, ad medium subparallelis, supra coiivcxis, subtilissime 

 striatis, striis impunctatis, iutorstitiis planis, dense confuse punc- 

 tatis, breviter fusco-squamosis et serie Bingula setarum per totum 

 instructia. 



Long. 2-1 mm. 



Hah. Ceylon, Bogawantalawa. One specimen. 



The body is covered with very short, close-lying, smoky 

 brown, hair-like scales. The front has a short median longi- 

 tudinal carina, and is finely and thinly pubescent. The 

 sutures of the antennal club are less strongly curved above 

 than in C. vestitus, and are nearly straight below. The 

 elytral setK are fine, short and inconspicuous. This species 

 is separable from C. vestitus by the absence of long 

 pubescence. 



The collection contains two or three species of Cryphalus^ 

 which I leave undetermined. Eichhotf has described several 

 from India and Burma, all on single specimens, which may 

 be identical with some of these species ; but as his types are 

 not accessible, any attempt at identification would be 

 unsatisfactory. 



SCOLTTOMIMUS, gen. nov. 



Caput rotundatum, obtectum ; oculi ovalcs, eraarginati ; antennarum 

 scapus longus, funiculus perbrevis, G-articuIatus, articulis 3"-C"" 

 transversis, latitudine baud cresccntibus, clava pcrniagna, ovalis, 

 compressa, solida, eutura unica obliqua in niargine externo 

 incipiente et medium attinente uotata ; mentum oblongum, hite- 

 ribus incurvatis, ligula ovali medio inserta, palpis labialibus 

 longis. 



Prothorax transversus, scmiorbiculatus. Scutellura magnum. 

 Elytra depressa, posterius vix declivia. Abdomen versus apicem 

 ascendens. 



Coxffi antic* approximata; ; tibiae compressaB, extus rotundata;, 

 anticaj extus serrata; ; tarsi rcccpti, breves, articulis tribus primis 

 a-cjualibus. 



The antennal club is three times as long as the funi- 

 culus, irregularly oval, spongy, and pubescent, with a single 

 conspicuous suture beginning on the outer edge near the base 



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