Melolonthine Beetles of Ceylon. 455 
TTah, CEYLON: Bogawantalawa, 5000 ft. (between 21st 
March and 4th April, G. Lewis). 
The type is a single male. 
It is rather lighter red in colour than S. nétida and scutel- 
laris, and still shorter and more dilated behind than the 
latter. The clypeus alone is shining, and the remainder of 
the upper surface not opaque, but having a strong opalescent 
silky lustre. ‘The puneturation is strong and deep, very 
scanty upon the head, fairly close upon the pronotum and in 
the elytral strie, and scanty, though coarse, upon the in- 
»tervals, which are convex and of nearly uniform width. 
Selaserica pusilla, sp. n. 
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Rufo-testacea, elytris paulo pallidioribus, nitidissima, scutello 
elytrorumque marginibus externis opacis, sat longe ovata, capite 
fortiter sat parce punctato, clypeo medio levi, tumido, margine 
antico fortiter exciso et reflexo; pronoto fortiter sat crebre et 
zqualiter punctato, lateribus arcuatis, angulis anticis paulo 
acutis, posticis rotundatis; elytris punctato-striatis, punctis 
profundis, irregularibus, intervallis convexis, parce punctatis ; 
tibia antica tridentata, dento supero minutg, aliis longibus : 
3, antennis equaliter 4-flabellatis, oculis magnis : 
©, antennis longe 3-flabellatis, oculis minoribus, 
Long. 7-8 mm. 
._ Hab. Ceyton: Diyatalawa (Sept., 7. Bainbrigge Flet- 
cher; Oct., H. H. Green). 
This is a very distinct species of small size, rather pale 
colour, and very shining surface, the scutellum and the lateral 
margins of the elytra alone remaining opaque. ‘The punctu- 
ration is everywhere rather coarse and fairly close upon the 
pronotum and in the elytral striz. The upper surface bears 
rather long but scanty erect hairs, which are more numerous 
at the sides and along the front:margin of the pronotum. 
The clypeus is elevated in the middle and deeply emarginate 
in front. The sides ef the pronotum are evenly rounded and 
the hind angles completely rounded away. The third tooth 
of the front tibia is very blunt and feeble, and the others 
rather long and sharp. ‘he club of the antenna is rather 
long in both sexes. 
The eyes of the male are large, the intervening space being 
less than twice the diameter of one eye as seen from above. 
