152 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1S92. 



Lengtli up to 27 mm. The British. Museum has several dried 

 specimens of this species. Most of these are ticketed ' Indian 

 Museum/ so doubtless they came from some part of India ; but 

 one of them presented by Mr. G. R. G. Rothney is labelled Calcutta. 



This species may be easily recognised from all the known Ceylonese 

 and Indian species by its curious banded colouring — a character in 

 which it appears to come nearest to an Australian species known as 

 transverse-tceniatum of L. Koch — a species of which the Museum 

 has several examples. But in this last-named the keels are brown, as 

 also are the anterior and lateral borders of the first tergite. It is 

 moreover not smooth and polished. I have great pleasure in dedicat- 

 ing this well-marked species to Mr. H. M. Phipson of the Bombay 

 Natural History Society. 



Strongylosoma jerdani, sp. n. 



Colour (dry specimens), entirely testaceous throughout. Closely 

 related to the preceding species ; it is consequently needless to 

 reproduce in fall the foregoing description. The most satisfactory 

 way of describing this new form will be perhaps to point out how it 

 may be recognised from phipsonu 



Isf. — The colour is entirely different. 



2nd. — The upper surface of the somites is not smooth and polished, 

 but dull and rugulose. 



3rd. — The keels are almost absent ; they are very short, being 

 scarcely represented by more than a tubercle on the hinder portion 

 of the somite, and are less conspicuous than the inferior keels. 

 These specimens are all males, and if we may judge by analogy with 

 phipsoni, in which the keels of the males are larger than those of the 

 females, in this new species the keels should be absent in the females. 



In sexual characters, i.e., the form of the copulatory foot, the 

 absence of any prominence of the sternum of the Sth somite, and the 

 hairy tarsi of the legs — this species is quite It^q 2)hipsom. 



The Museum has three dry, possibly faded male examples from 

 Madras from the collection of Mr. Jordan. 



I trust that Mr. Thurston will soon obtain fresh specimens of 

 this species so that its real colour may be known. 



