1887.] PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA OF CEYLON. 75 



near the apices ; claws appendiculate ; femora with a very minute 

 tooth ; prosternum broader than long, strongly punctured. 



Variable in size and colour and allied in regard to the latter to 

 Nodostoma jansoin, Baly, and N. tibiale ; the distinct elytral depres- 

 sion will separate the species from the former, and the very closely 

 punctured thorax from the last-named species. It is quite possible 

 that Noda viridicenea, Sclionh., refers to the present species. 



Rhyparida L^vicoLLis, sp. nov. 



Obscure fulvous ; eyes closely approached ; head and thorax 

 impunctate ; elytra with a subbasilar depression, strongly punctate- 

 striate ; femora dilated into a strong triangular tooth. 



Length 2 lines. 



Head impunctate ; eyes very large, the space dividing them 

 narrower than their diameter, their inner margin deeply notched ; 

 epistome separated from the front by a few punctures only.' Antennae 

 nearly as long as the body, fulvous, the fourth joint longer than the 

 third, this longer than the second joint, the following slightly 

 thickened, the apices of the joints stained with fuscous. Thorax 

 transverse, the sides rounded, the angles distinct, the surface entirely 

 impunctate or with a few microscopically fine punctures. Elvtra 

 with a distinct depression below the base, the latter somewhat 

 swollen, the surface deeply punctate-striate at the anterior portion, 

 more finely punctured towards the apices; the anterior and posterior 

 femora dilated into a strong triangular tooth, the intermediate 

 femora minutely dentate ; claws bifid. 



Galle. 



R. Icpvicollis may be recognized by the large and closely approached 

 eyes and the impunctate thorax, in connection with the strongly 

 dentate femora ; the elytra have the basal portion more distantly 

 punctured than the rest of the surface, and the shoulders are entirely 

 devoid of punctuation, but bounded within by a deep hue of closely 

 approached punctures, the latter being more widely placed below 

 the elytral depression ; the general colour varies from pale to dark 

 fulvous, the sides and the suture being sometimes stained with 

 piceous. No species of RJnjparida has, to my knowledge, hitherto 

 been recorded from Ceylon. 



Rhyparida quinquemaculata, sp. nov. (Plate X. fig. 3.) 



Rufous ; the last eight joints of the antennae and the legs black ; 

 thorax sparingly and finely punctured ; elytra regularly punctate- 

 striate, a sutural spot at the middle, another at the shoulder, and a 

 third near the apex of each elytron black ; femora toothed. 



Length 2 lines. 



Head with a deep fovea at the vertex, not visibly punctured ; the 

 epistome separated from the face by a slight transverse depression. 

 Antennae half the length of the body, black, the three lower joints 

 fulvous, the third and fourth joints slender, of equal length, the 

 following joints slightly depressed and shorter. Thorax transversely 

 convex, about three times as broad as long, the sides rounded ; the 



