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the shoulder, and the thorax having the base narrower with the 

 hind angles right angles, so that the insect is not so uniformly round 

 as in its allies. The antennae are formed much as in S. vallatus, the 

 second to eighth joints being short and bead-shaped, but longer 

 than wide, the club strong but laxly jointed, the apical joint quad- 

 rate and much (fully twice) wider than the ninth. The thorax is 

 wider than long, narrowed to the front angles, but with its sides 

 nearly straight in the basal two thirds ; i^s flattened margin has its 

 internal edge deeply impressed in front, where the flat part is widest, 

 and it appears raised at the base only, where the disk is widely 

 .sulcata ; the disk is convex, minutely but distinctly covered with 

 small points, but the puncturing is much obscured by coarse floccose 

 pubescence. 



(3nly one specimen of this interesting species was obtained. 



Panomcea. 



1. Panom{ea cingalensis. (Plate XVII. fig. 2.) 



Ru/o-testacea ,■ cupite et thorace basi piceis ; antennarum clava, 

 articulo basuli externe, scutello, sutura elytrisque maculis quinque 

 sat magnis nigris ; antennis articulis decern. Long. 5 millim. 



Hab. Ceylon, Hadley {Lewis). 



Antennae ten-jointed, the basal joint is stout, a little curved, the 

 second is scarcely longer than broad, and the third is apparently 

 longer than usual, and is possibly really composed of the third and 

 fourth joints together, bat I can see no suture ; the fourth to the 

 seventh very short, club lax, the eighth and ninth joints rather 

 trigonal. Head pitchy, smooth ; eyes coarsely granulate (as in 

 typical Panomcea). Thorax as in P. pardalina, but anterior angles 

 rather more prominent, scarcely punctured, but a little uneven at 

 the sides, finely margined, except at the middle of the base. Elytra 

 more cordate than in other species, and viewed sideways rising to a 

 point so as to appear more gibbous than in its allies, finely but 

 closely punctured, with five largish black spots — one humeral, two 

 near the suture, one marginal (larger than the others), one subapical ; 

 this last in one example connected with the marginal one ; the under- 

 side and legs are deep ferruginous red. 



Five or six examples were obtained. 



Endoc(elus, n. g. 



Mr. Lewis has met with a very curious small beetle in Ceylon, 

 which apparently comes very near Panomcea, which itself is synony- 

 mous with Cyclotoma of Mulsant, and of which a short description 

 will be sufiicient to render its identification certain. The antennae, 

 however, appear to me to be ten-jointed, and the two basal joints to 

 be stout, the third to the seventh to be very short, the three last 

 forming an elongate lax club. 



The tarsi are four-jointed, almost Hnear, very similar to those of 

 Rhymbus, 



