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the elytra costate at the sides and pointed at the apices instead 
of rounded, and the female insect is opaque in colour; the ab- 
dominal appendages in the male are also of different colour 
and shorter than in the allied species. 
60. Hoplasoma ceylonensis, n. sp. 
Elongate, pale fulvous; head and thorax impunctate, the latter 
impressed ; elytra extremely finely punctured, with a more or 
less distinct lateral costa. 
Length 4 lines. 
Head impunctate, the vertex convex, the frontal tubercles 
distinct, trigonate; anterior margin of the labrum deeply sinuate; 
apices of the jaws black; antennae slender, two third the length 
of the body, the third joint more than double the length of the 
second; thorax transversely subquadrate, the disc transversely 
depressed, shining, impunctate; elytra very minutely punctured, 
from the shoulder to below the middle furnished with a strongly 
raised costa; their epipleurae extremely narrow ; claws bifid. 
Hab. Ceylon, Pointe de Galle (L. M. D’Albertis). 
The entirely fulvous colour of the underside as well as the 
elytral costa separates this species from H. celebensis. 
Neodrana, n. gen. 
Body oblong; eyes large, entire; penultimate joint of palpi 
incrassate : antennae closely approached, slender, as long as the 
body, the second and third joints very short, equal, the fourth 
joint the longest. Thorax transverse, rather convex without de- 
pression. Scutellum very small. Elytra not depressed below the 
base, the punctuation arranged in rows, the epipleurae continued 
below the middle; the posterior tibiae mucronate, their first 
tarsal joint much longer than the 3 following joints together. 
Claws appendiculate ; anterior coxal cavities open. 
The very short second and third joints of the antennae, the 
punctate-striate elytra together with the long first joint of the 
