164 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1892. 



lower portion ferruginous ; antennae flavous ; legs flavous-ferruginous 

 at tlie base ; anal somite with valves pale ochraceousi 



Head ; vertex witt a faintly marked sulcus, lower portion irregularly 

 striolate, four punctures above the labral excision ; eyes composed of 

 53-66 ocelli arranged in 7 or 8 transverse rows, distance between the 

 eyes about equal to or a little less tban a diameter ; antennce some- 

 wbat short, reaching just beyond the hind border of the side of 

 the dollum. 



Somites ; coUum cotered \vith a reticulated pattern of striolae ; 

 lateral portion not markedly narrowed, with infero-anterior angles 

 obtusely convex and defined by a sulcus, posterior angle rectan- 

 gularly convex, marked inferiorly and posteriorly with two cresCentic 

 sulci ; the rest divided into an anterior and posterior half by a 

 complete transverse groove, the anterior half nearly smooth io front 

 and finely striolate transversely, but distinctly and finely rugose 

 behind ; the posterior half strongly sculptured out into fine, close- 

 set, more or less branching and anastomosing, Smooth ridges which 

 inferiorly pass into the normal longitudinal striae ) the j!?(9r<?.s 

 situated about in the middle of the side, . in the posterior half 

 immediately behind the groove which here is sinuate : anal somite 

 covered with a reticulated pattern of striolae^ the upper portion 

 irregularly grooved longitudinally, transversely impressed and 

 angled posteriorly, but not produced into a tail, merely covering 

 and not overlapping the upper angles of the valves;- valves with 

 their margins but little convex, but strongly and somewhat widely 

 compressed ; sternite with hinder border convex. 



Legs very smooth, with a single set On the lower surface of each 

 segment. 



Number of somites 64-65 ; length up to 117 mm. 



The British Museum has two dried and faded examples of this 

 species from Ceylon (Templeton) ; Mr. Grreen brought one from 

 Punduloya, which, seeing that it is not faded, I have selected as the 

 type of the new species. This specimen is the smallest of the three, 

 measuring only 70 mni. in length ; whereas Templeton's examples 

 measure 90 and 117 mm. respectively. 



8p. contemptus of Karsch is related to 8^. insculpius ; fke two may 

 indeed prove to be synonymous, but in the description of Sp. coniemptns, 



