120 ME. D. SHARP ON SOME 



it becomes necessary to substitute another for it, Wollaston's 

 TarpUosoma, published in 1862, having a slight priority. It is 

 true that Motschoulsky's figure of T. fasciata appeared in the 

 Moscow Bulletin for the year 1861 ; but this cannot be considered 

 sufiicient to validate his generic name, though as it is sufficient for 

 the recognition of the species the publication of the species may 

 be considered to date from that of the figure. Neoplatus agrees 

 with TarpMosoma in having the eyes protected by the front angles 

 of the thorax and quite destitute of scales, and in the compara- 

 tively wide-separated front coxse and very broad prosternal pro- 

 cess, as well as in many other of its characters. Neoj^latus is, 

 however, of remarkably broad depressed form, and its antennae 

 are intermediate in structure between the genera with two and 

 those with three joints in the club ; the metasternum and ventral 

 segments are not abbreviated as they are in TarpMosoma, the epi- 

 pleursB are remarkably broad and horizontal, and the tibise are 

 only very indistinctly obliquely narrowed at the extremity ; the 

 upper surface, instead of long setsB, bears a variegate tomentum, 

 among which there are excessively short upright scales, so short, 

 indeed, that they can only be distinguished by careful examination, 

 while the lateral margins are closely fringed with somewhat longer, 

 but still short, thick setse or scales. 



Neoplattjs tasciattis. 



Tarphisoma fasciata, Motsch. Bull. Mosc. 1861, i. Tab. ix. f. S2; 1863, 

 i. p. 505. 



Taken freely at Hadley, Dikoya. 



Teachtpholis ERiCHSOisri. (Plate VI. fig. 3.) 



Trachypholis 'Erichsoni, Heitt. Stett. ent. Zeii. xxxviii. p. 328. 



Point de Galle and Dikoya ; nine examples. 



This species is apparently rather widely distributed. Reitter's 

 examples came from Siam and Malacca, and I possess individuals 

 from the Andaman Islands. 



Trachypholis fasciculata. 



Trachypholis fasciculata, Iteitt. Stett. ent. Zelt. xxxviii. p. 328. 



This species I have not seen. 



COLOBICUS RUGOSULUS. 



Colobicus rugosulus, Pascoe, Journ. of Ent. ii. p. 123, note. 



Dikoya, Bogawantalawa, and Nuwara Ellia ; eleven specimens. 



