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length, and the pouultimutc joint is ishorter and narrower llinii the 

 preceding ones. 



Ozoti/piis SftOS^lS. 



O. ferrugiueius, lubercuhitus, tiibereulis setigi'ris. 



Hah. Ceylon. 



Subovato, ferru|j:inous, ahnost oveiywliero covered with sfti^X'Toiis 

 tuberck>s, except the epistonie and antenna) ; head rather small, sli«rhtly 

 eoneavo in front ; prothorax transverse, ronnded at the sides, produced 

 into an angle anteriorly, a prominent gibbosity in front partially over- 

 hanging the head, and irr(>gularly studded vt^ith gi-anular tubercles; 

 elytra nearly ovate, wider than the prothorax at the base, the tubercles 

 closely and regidarly arranged in lines (nine or ten on each) ; legs 

 n^ddish-ferruginoiL?, rather short, slender, closely covered with small 

 tubercles bearing rather longish setne; tarsi very short, the basal joint 

 shortly triangular, the rest, except the last, very transverse and clothed 

 with sparse stilf hairs ; antenna? rather more than a fourth as long as 

 the body, more clavifonn than in Osdara picipes ; eyes brown ; man- 

 dibles dusky ; body beneath didl ferruginous. Length 4 lines. 



AroLECTA [Anthribidic]. 

 Pascoe, Aim. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 3 ser. iv. p. 431. 



Apolecta f acuta. 



A. pallide grisea, nigi'o varia ; capite prothoraceque griseo bivittatis ; 

 elvtris maculis approximatis ; tai'sorum articulo primo basi cinerascente. 



TIab. Cerani. 



Narrowly oblong, with a short pale-greyish pile varied with black ; 

 head and prothorax black, with two greyish or dull-white stripes from 

 between the autennte and eyes, and terminating at the posterior border 

 of the latter ; antennee three to four times as long as the body, black, 

 the last three joints white; eyes dark horn-colour; prothorax longer 

 than broad, narrowed in front ; scutelluin small, transversely oblong ; 

 elytra subovate, dull greyish, with large black approximate or confluent 

 patches; legs black, the first joint of all the tarsi ashy above at the 

 base ; body beneath dark brown, slightly shining, margin of the me- 

 tastemum and of all the abdominal segments greyish. Length 7-8 lines. 



This is the largest and most robust of all the described .sjjecies, 

 and nearest in colour to A. parvula, Thorns. The spots on the 

 elytra are more or less confluent according to the individual. 



Mecocerus [Anthribidae]. 

 Schdnherr, Gen. et Sp. Curcul. i. p. 115. 



Mecocerus insi(/nis. 



M. robustus, griseo-ochraceus, atro maculutus ; prothorace pauUo lougiorc 



quam latiore ; antennis pedibusque atris. 

 Hah. Ceram. 



