1887.] PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA OF CEYLON. 103 



than the others, but noae extend to the end of the elytra nor to the 

 middle. The shoulders are but little prominent, and between them 

 and the lateral margin of the elytra there is a broader impunctate 

 space extending to the middle, the lateral margin itself being accom- 

 panied by a row of deep punctures. The legs are subject to some 

 variation in colour, being sometimes dark fulvous, but the anterior 

 tibifB seem to remain testaceous. 



AuLACOPHORA STEVENSi, Baly. (Plate XI. fig. 1.) 



Testaceous ; head and thorax impunctate ; elytra finely punctured ; 

 a sutural and submarginal narrow stripe, as well as their extreme 

 apices, black. 



c? . The fourth joint of the antennae strongly swollen and elongate. 



Length 3 lines. 



Head rather swollen at the vertex, impunctate, the frontal tubercles 

 narrowly transverse. Antennae more than two thirds the length of 

 the elytra, entirely testaceous, the second joint extremely short, the 

 third and fifth joints triangularly dilated in the male, the fourth 

 greatly enlarged in the same sex, the rest of nearly equal length and 

 slender. Thorax transverse, the sides rather deliexed and widened 

 towards the apex, the surface with a deeply impressed transverse 

 groove near the base, impunctate. Scutellum black. Elytra rather 

 convex and gradually widened posteriorly, extremely finely and rather 

 closely punctured, a narrow sutural stripe extending to the apices 

 and round the latter, and another equally narrow stripe near the 

 lateral margin, commencing at the base and abbreviated before the 

 apex of each elytron, black. Legs and underside entirely testaceous. 



The female only differs from the male in having simple antennae. 



Bogawantalawa. 



AuLACOPHORA NiGRiPETA, Duviv. (Plate XL figs. 2, 3.) 



PhYLLOBROTICA HIRTIPENNIS, Sp. nOV. 



Obscure piceous or black below; basal joints of the antennae, the 

 head, thorax, and the femora fulvous ; el3-tra obscure testaceous, 

 finely rugose and pubescent, the margins narrowly fuscous. 



Length Ig line. 



Head impunctate ; the frontal tubeixles distinct but small ; palpi 

 robust. Antennae two thirds the length of the body, piceous, the 

 three basal joints fulvous. Thorax transverse, the sides slightly con- 

 stricted at the base, the disk rather deeply transversely depressed, 

 impunctate. Elytra very obscure pale or darker testaceous, sometimes 

 fuscous, the suture and the lateral margin at the shoulders darker ; 

 the surface slightly rugosely punctured and moderately closely covered 

 with stiff whitish hairs; their epipleurae extremely narrow. Tibiae 

 unarmed, fuscous ; the first joint of the posterior tarsi as long as the 

 two following joints together ; the anterior coxal cavities open. 



Nuwara Eliya. 



The legs are sometimes entirely fulvous, but generally the femora 

 only are of that colour. 



