1 !4 MR. M. JACOBY ON THE [Feb. 1, 



Mktrioidea rufipennis, sp. nov. (Plate XI. fig. 8.) 



Oblong ; black ; bead, antennae, and legs fulvous ; thorax greenish 

 black, obsoletely depressed ; elytra rufous, very finely punctured. 



d' . Face deeply excavated ; the third joint of the antennae curved 

 and produced at the apex. 



Length H lines. 



Head rufous at the vertex, impunctate, deeply transversely grooved 

 between the eyes ; lovper part of the face deeply excavated, the 

 excavation bounded at the sides and above by several lobes which 

 protrude beyond the impressed portion ; the clypeus thickened ; 

 palpi moderately incrassate at the penultimate joint. Antennae 

 nearly as long as the body, fulvous, the second joint very short, the 

 third curved and widened into a tooth at the apex, nearly as long as 

 the following joints, the apical joints more slender than the rest. 

 Thorax about one half broader than long, narrowed towards the base, 

 greenish black, shining, the surface with an obsolete transverse 

 depression at the sides near the base, impunctate. Scutellum rufous. 

 Elytra very finely and rather closely punctured, rufous, their 

 epipleurse continued below the middle ; tibiae unarmed, the first 

 joint of the posterior tarsi as long as the two following joints 

 together. Claws appendiculate The anterior coxal cavities closed. 



Kandy. 



1 have placed this species, of which I have evidently only the male 

 insect before me, in the present genus on account of the closed coxal 

 cavities, unarmed tibiae, and the appendiculate claws ; the propor- 

 tionate length of the joints of the antennae is, however, different than 

 in Metrioidea, and it is possible that the present species is repre- 

 sentative of a new genus. 



OCHRALEA CEYLON ICA, Harold (?). 



Dikoya. 



The descriptions of two species of Ochralea from Ceylon have 

 been published by von Harold. With one of these the insect which 

 I refer to the present species agrees in the main points. It is, 

 however, smaller by one millimetre ; the antennae, with the exception 

 of the two basal joints are fuscous, not testaceous, the third joint 

 being slightly longer than the second. The elytra have the sides 

 more or less stained with obscure fulvous, and the punctuation is 

 exceedingly close, and consists of larger and smaller punctures. 

 Without examining the type of O. ceylonica contained in the Berlin 

 Museum, it is impossible to say whether the specimens before me 

 represent that or an allied species. In regard to the genus Ochralea, 

 Mr. Baly has drawn my attention to the state of the anterior coxal 

 cavities, which according to Chapuis are supposed to be closed. A 

 careful examination of several specimens proves this, however, to be 

 erroneous, as the cavities are distinctly open. This character and the 

 prolonged elytral epipleurae will not allow Ochralea, according to 

 Mr. Baly's opinion, to be separated from Luperodes, a genus which 

 seems also to possess open cavities, although I have considered the 

 latter in Luperodes as being closed. The whole question of open or 



