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It tkerefore appears to me to be rightl}'" referable to the 

 L^uojieta lidvs, 



Stemmiulus cei/lonicus, sp. n. 

 (PL i, fig. 2.) 



Colour (in alcohol), obscure testaceous or ochraceous, with fuscous 

 bands ; head, antfennse and coliuni black, the posterior end of the body 

 becoming infuscdte, the terminal somites being black ; legs pale 

 infitSCate. 



Bodi/ moderately robust, compressed, a little narrower in front, and 

 tapering to a point posteriorly. 



ffcdd and fate Convex, not sulcate, sparsely punctured and hairy ; 

 margin of labrura shallowly and angularly excavated and serrate 

 throughout its width, with about 6 piliferous pores above; ef/esy 

 two on each side, subcontiguous, round, behind the socket of the 

 antennsd, a larger above and a smaller below. Antenna: long, slender, 

 not incrassate, the second segment the longest, the third, fourth, and 

 iftftk about ^q^ial in length, sixth about half the length of the fifth, 



Soinitcn finely striolate ; collum narrowed laterally to an acute angle, 

 hulrgin thickened as high as the eye, and marked behind by a fine 

 sulcus, the rest of the somites marked anteriorly by a fine transverse 

 Sulcus, those at the anterior end of the body obliquely striate infe- 

 riorly and laterally, the striae ascending posteriorly so that the dorsum 

 of the middl-e and posterior end of the body is conspicuously striate ; 

 the striae sub-parallel on each side, but those on one side inclined at 

 an angle of about 80® to those on the other ; the middle line of the 

 back marked by conspicuous longitudinal sulcus, and the inferior 

 portion of the somites above the legs also marked by a strong and 

 deep sulcus ; the potsterior margin of each somite inferiorly dentate, 

 the teeth very strong at the anterior extremity of the body ; anal 

 tergite very small, not produced beyond the valves ; valves hairy, 

 nearly flat, with simple margiuS) a few short membranous processes 

 projecting above the valtes; sternite with straight or lightly concave 

 hinder border and rounded posterior angles. Pores small, just 

 behind the transverse sulcus and far from the hinder border of the 

 somite, situated very high on the lateral surface of the dorsum. 



Legs not long, hairy. 



Number of segments 40-45 ; length about 32 mm. 



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