1887.] PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA OF CEYLON. Ill 



coloured head, legs, and the want of the sutural elytral band. L. pec- 

 toralis, Jac, differs in the black antennae and tarsi as well as other 

 particulars. 



LUPERODES MULTIMACULATUS, Sp. nOF. 



Testaceous; antennae and the breast black; head with a black 

 spot ; thorax minutely punctured, with a black spot at each side ; 

 elytra ovate, finely punctured, the base and lateral margin anteriorly, 

 a spot near the base, two others below the middle, one near the apex 

 as well as the latter itself, black. 



Length 2 lines. 



Head impimctate, transversely grooved between the eyes, the 

 latter large ; the vertex with a large round black spot ; labruni 

 black ; antennae slender, the third joint one half longer than the 

 second. Thorax transverse, rather more than twice as broad as 

 long, the sides and the posterior margin rounded ; the surface 

 extremely minutely punctured, testaceous, the sides with an elongate 

 black spot placed close to the lateral margin. Scutellum black. 

 Elytra slightly widened at the middle, extremely finely punctured 

 and wrinkled, the basal and lateral margins at the anterior half as 

 well as the epipleurae black ; each elytron with a small black spot 

 at the shoulder, a larger and more elongate one near the scutellum, 

 two similar spots placed close to each other near the suture below 

 the middle (one slightly above the other), and a fifth, narrow and 

 elongate spot near the lateral margin and at a little distance from 

 the apex, the latter also black at the extremity. Breast black ; 

 abdomen and the legs fulvous; the metatarsus of the posterior tibiae 

 as long as half their length. Anterior coxal cavities closed. Elytral 

 epipleurae very narrow below the middle. 



A single specimen. 



LuPERODES RUFICOLLIS, Sp. nov. 



Black ; head and thorax rufous ; elytra black, very minutely 

 punctured. 



Length Ig line. 



Head impunctate, bright rufous; labrum and palpi piceous. 

 Antennae black, the basal joint piceous, its base testaceous, the second 

 and third joints short, nearly equal. Thorax transverse, three times 

 as broad as long, the sides straight, the posterior margin rather 

 rounded, the surface extremely finely punctured. Scutellum black. 

 Elytra exceedingly finely punctured, black. Legs slender; the 

 tibiae mucronate ; the first joint of the posterior tarsi more than half 

 the length of the tibiae. Anterior coxal cavities closed. 



LXJPERODES ALBOPI.AGIATUS, Motsch. 



Dikoya. 



PSEUDOCOPHORA BICOLOR, Sp. UOV. 



Flavous ; thorax deeply transversely depressed ; elytra black, 

 shining, obsoletely semipunctate-striate. 



