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formantibus, apice attingentibus, gi-acilibus, inermibus, margine inteino 

 minutissime crenulatis ; $ rectis, gracilibus, contiguis, inertnibus, apic 

 decussatis. ^ 9. 



$ ? 



Long, corporis 7*25 mm. 8 mm. 



„ forcipis 4"3o 3 



HEAD sbining brown, eyes black ; sntennas with 12 long segments, Nos. 3 

 and 2 very slightly shorter than the others. 



PRONOTUM narrower than the head, square, the angles rounded, the 

 sides slightly turned, brown, the sides paler. 



THE ELYTRA are short and square, brown, truncated at the apex. 



Wings absent. 



ABDOMEN slender, dilated in the middle, the glandular folds very distinct ; 

 dark-brown, the folds still darker ; from the sixth segment strongly attenu- 

 ated, the last dorsal segment narrower, more so at the apexthan at the base, 

 with a faint median impression, the hinder border straight with a tubercle 

 above the insertion of the forceps on each side, more strongly in the ^ than 

 in the 9- 



FEET very slender and long, dark-testaceous, very faintly pubescent, the 

 tarsi more strongly so ; the first tarsal segment is as long as the third ; the 

 second short, very distinctly lobed. 



FORCEPS of the ^ with the branches subcontiguous at the base ittelf, 

 then slightly flattened and contiguous, then suddenly strongly arched out- 

 wards, very slender, gradually incurved to meet at the apex ; on the inner 

 margin of this oval enclosed part there are a few faint crenulations. In the 

 $ the branches are simple, straight, unarmed, slender, contiguous through- 

 out their length, crossing at the apex. 



Habitat— Ceylon, Hatton, vii., 97 (.O.8.W.) 



I received a male and a female of this species from Mr. Green. It is to 

 be distinguished from 0. ceylonica by the form of the forceps of the ^ , by 

 the much shorter and truncate elytra and absence of wings by the square 

 pionotum absence of the abdominal tooth of the male, shorter and stouter 

 legs. 



It approaches very nearly to Neololophora tamul, but may be distin- 

 guished by the free elytra ; the forceps are almost exactly the same shape, 

 I cannot distinguish a clear scutellum between the elytra at the base, but the 

 species may have to be removed, when better known, to Neololophora. 



It appears to be allied to 0. (?) duUa, Borm., from Burma, but differs in the 

 colour of the head, femora and the form of the elytra, which are narrower 

 at the base than at the apex, which are scarcely broader than the prono- 

 tum at the shoulders. In 0. cluhia the elytra are considerably broader than 

 the pronotum and have the sides parallel. From their shape, in this species 

 the sides are slightly diverging. 



