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SUB-CLASS, CHILOGNATHA. 

 Order, Oniscomorpha, 

 Family, Zephroniidce. 

 Zephronia brandti, Humbert. 

 Syn. Sphceropceus brandti, Humbert, Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve, xviii, 



p. 38, p. iii, fig. 15 (1865) ; Karsch, 

 Arch. Naturg., 1881, p. 29. 

 ,, Zephronia chitonoides, Butler, Ann. N. H., (4), x, p. 354, pi. 



xviii, fig. 2 (1872). 

 „ ,, rugulosa, id., t. c, p. 355, pi. xviii, fig. 1. 



Mr. Green obtained this species at Punduloya, in Ceylon. 

 Colour testaceous or ocbraceous, head and nuchal plate usually 

 darker than rest of the body, the anterior portion of the tergites 

 may be darker than the posterior. 



Head sparsely punctured above, more thickly so in region of 

 labrum ; armed above with from four to ten sharp teeth borne on a 

 ridge which extends without interruption from one eye to the other. 

 Nuchal plate with inferior margin nearly straight and upturned 

 edge ; not marked with a sulcus or ridge; almost without punctures, 

 somewhat thickly punctured above its inferior margin. 



First tergite with somewhat abruptly rounded anterior border ; 

 not sulcate ; lamina very slightly developed, scarcely represented by 

 m.ore than the upturned edge of the tergite ; anterior edge of the 

 tergite very gradually produced forward on each side of the head, 

 then curving gently back to the inferior portion ; anterior portion 

 either punctured or almost smooth. 



Tergites anteriorly more or less punctured or rugulose ; posteriorly 

 without punctures ; sometimes almost wholly smooth. 



Anal tergite exceedingly finely or coarsely punctured or rugulose ; 

 without a ridge on each side of the inferior internal surface, and 

 without a trace of a notch or the antero-lateral inferior edge. 



$ , Anal tergite saddle-shaped, i. e,, concave from before back- 

 wards and from side to side. Antennse larger. 



Forceps; 1st pair — proximal and second segments wide and flat ; 

 third segment rounded and stout, with a slender conical dactylar 

 prolongation; distal segment more compressed, truncate, projecting 



