from India and Ceylon. 49 



minutissime et densissime granulatis, circum scutellum laevioribus, 

 subnitidis ; antennis dimidium elytrorum paullo excedentibus, 

 scapo crasso, valde et subscabroso punctato, quam articulus 

 tertius fere duplo longiore. 

 Long. 37, lat. 14 mm., 2 • 



Hob. Nilghiri Hills (Hampson). 



Head and prothorax nearly black ; elytra and underside of 

 body dark brown. Prothorax finely and very closely punc- 

 tulate, with three nearly im punctate shining spaces on the 

 surface of the pronotura (one on each side near the middle of 

 the disk, the third narrow, transverse, basal) and with a small 

 nitid spot on each side external to the discal spaces ; with the 

 lateral borders subparallel, not rounded anteriorly, and each 

 provided with a row of small spines, of which that at the pos- 

 terior angle is strongest and recurved ; the obliquity of the 

 margin from this spine to the base also with two or three small 

 spines. Scutellum densely punctulate, with its posterior border 

 smooth and subnitid. Elytra somewhat smooth and shining 

 around the scutellum and on the anterior sutural region, with 

 the rest of their surface dull, owing to its extremely fine and 

 close granulation. Abdomen and sides of breast very finely 

 and closely punctulate, with the posterior borders of the first 

 four abdominal segments impunctate and very glossy, and 

 with a triangular space of the metasternum subnitid and very 

 sparsely punctulate. Legs blackish, with the tarsi reddish 

 castaneous. Antennas with the scape much stouter than and 

 nearly twice as long as the third joint. 



This species somewhat resembles R. manillce, Nevvm., but 

 is to be easily distinguished by the opacity of the elytra as 

 well as by the greater relative thickness of the scape of the 

 antennas. 



A single female specimen in the collection. 



The following fine new species from Ceylon has up to now 

 remained undescribed. There are three specimens in the 

 Museum collection. 



Rhajphipodus taprobanicus, n. sp. 



($ . Fuscus ; elytris castaneis, subopacis ; prothorace minutissime 

 et creberrime punctulato, cum plagis et maculis disco nitidis et 

 sparsim punctatis, marginibus lateralibus crenulatis, antice rotun- 

 datis ; elytris minutissime et densissime granulosis, basi prope 



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