158 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HLSTORY 80CLETY, 1892. 



Punduloya (Mr. Green). 



Two species of this genus have hitherto only been known — 

 8t. bioculatus of Grervais from Columbia, and 8t. compressus of Karsch 

 from Porto Pico. Consequently the occurrence of the genus in Ceylon 

 is of very great interest. 



The species here described resembles con^jressiis and differs from 



bioculatus in having Uoo eyes on each side of the head. From com- 



pressus it seems to differ in the form of the coUum, in having all its 



segments, except the first, marked with a median, dorsal, longitudinal 



sulcus (Dr. Karsch describes a median, dorsal costa). Moreover, 



Dr. Karsch makes no mention of the segments being laterally 



dentate. 



Family, lulidoe. 



Trachyiulus ceylonicus, Peters. 



Peters, Mon. Ak. Wissen., Berlin, 1 864, p. 547. 



Humbert, op. cit., pp. 43-46, pi. iii, fig. 18. 



Mr. Green obtained several examples of this remarkable species at 

 Punduloya. 



Hitherto it has been regarded as peculiar to Ceylon, but the 

 British Museum has one example ticketed Madras. 



Spirosfreptus malaharicus, Gervais. 



Ins. Apt., iv, p. 165. 



Colotir ; head castaneous, clouded with piceous above ,' antennm clear 

 yellow, the basal segment brown, and the second segment feebly 

 shaded with the same colours ; legs the same tint as-the antennae, with 

 the basal or basal two segments infuscate ,' collum fusco-castaneous ; 

 anal segment and valves nearly black ; the rest of the segments with 

 anterior half ferruginous and posterior half very nearly black j 

 shining, 



Sead entirely smooth and polished, at most very faintly punctured 

 with feebly rugulose upper portion of vertex, the sulcus on the vertex 

 faint, inner angles of the eyes not united by a transverse sulcus j 

 labral margin moderately excavated, with 2 (? more) punctures 

 above the excavation. Antennae short, punctured, when stretched 

 laterally barely reaching to the hind border of the collum ; the four 

 distal segments pubescent. Eyes composed of about 72 ocelli, and 

 separated by a space greater than their longest diameter. 



