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HALTICINJE. 



Elytra very strongly convex, narrowed and rather pointed at the- 

 apex, each elytron with ten rows of punctures, including a short 

 scutellar row. Underside smooth, shining, impunctate. 

 Length, 1^ mm. 



Ceylon: Bogawantalawa, 4900-5200 ft., 21. iii-4. iv. 1882 

 (67. Lewis). 



Type in the British Museum. 



184. Kamala rugicollis, Jacoby. 



Hypnophila rugicollis, Jac, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1887, p. 89. 



Black ; elytra black with a purplish sheen when seen at certain 

 angles. 



Head finely rugose. Antennae constructed similarly to those of 

 K. apicipennis. Protlioraoc extremely convex, sloping down at the 

 sides, broader than long ; surface entirely covered with fine 

 longitudinal rugosities, giving it an opaque appearance ; on either 

 side there is a small longitudinal indentation situated at the base, 

 and a lateral oblique impression extending close to the lateral 

 margin, the space between these two impressions appearing 

 somewhat thickened, shining and without rugosity. Scutellum 

 small, broad, with apex rounded and surface smooth and impunc- 

 tate. Elytra ovate, very convex and pointed at the apex, punctate- 

 striate, the punctures regular, moderately deep, and close together, 

 each elytron having eleven rows, including a short scutellar and 

 an extreme marginal row. Underside smooth, shining, impunctate, 

 the sternal plates pitted ; elytral epipleura broadest at the base and 

 tapering to the apex ; posterior femora very strongly incrassate ; 

 posterior tibiae straight and armed at the apex with a long spine ; 

 first segment of posterior tarsi nearly as long as the three 

 following segments together ; first segment of front and middle 

 tarsi much broadened. 



Length, 1| mm. 



Ceylon: Bogawantalawa, 4900-5200 ft., 21. iii-4. iv. 1882 

 (67. Lewis). 



Type in the British Museum. 



185. Kamala laevicollis, sp. nov. 



Body convex, spheroidal, pointed behind. Black above; under- 

 side, tibia?, and tarsi pitch-brown; the basal segments of the 

 antennae light brown, the remaining segments black. 



Head with vertex not convex, impunctate, interocular space 

 flat, smooth, interantennal space rather broad. Antennae short 

 (as usual in the genus) ; basal segment the longest, club-shaped, 

 second thicker than third, which is slender, fourth, fifth, and 

 sixth very short ; from the sixth to the end the segments form a 

 thickened club. Protliorax broader than long, convex, smooth 

 and impunctate, except for a few scattered, extremely fine r 



