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HALTICIN^E. 



No such combination of colours ; 

 pronotum and elytra not conco- 

 lorous 



5. Pronotum always brown or red-brown : 



elytra of a different colour (blue, 

 black or green, or a mixture of these 

 colours) 



6. Each elytron with eleven regular longi- 



tudinal single rows of punctures . . 

 Each elytron either with more or less 

 regular double rows, or with a 

 tendency towards such an arrange- 

 ment, or with confused punctuation. 



7. Elytra black, with the punctuation 



showing a tendency towards forma- 

 tion of double rows 



Elytra blue or green or a mixture of 

 these colours 



8. Elytra blue or blue-green, with the 



punctuation more or less arranged in 



double rows 



Elytral punctures confused 



9. Surface of pronotum convex, shining . . 

 Surface of pronotum rather flat, not 



shining 



195. Podagrica ceylonensis, Jacob)/. 



Podayrica ceylonensis, Jac, Entomologist, xxxii, 1899, p. 82. 

 Body ovate. Colour entirely brow n. 



Head\ vertex convex, impunctate, separated from the e\es by 

 oblique impressed lines, frontal tubercles obsolete, interantennal 

 area somewhat raised. Antennae almost as long as the body (only 

 about one-half a millimetre shorter) ; first segment thickened and 

 club-shaped, second shorter but thicker than third, the latter 

 and the following two equal in length ; from the sixth to the 

 last the segments are slightly thicker. Prothorax somewhat 

 broader than long, front and basal margins almost straight, the 

 latter may be slightly sinuate ; at each side, perpendicular to the 

 base, is a short impressed line ; sides margined, slightly rounded 

 in front, at the anterior angles the margin is somewhat truncate, 

 and each of the auterior and posterior angles bears a seta ; 

 surface convex, fairly closely punctate, the punctures being 

 shallow. Scutellum small, triangular, with apex rounded and 

 surface impunctate. Elytra broader at base than prothorax, 

 puuctate-striate ; on each elytron there are eleven rows of 

 punctures, including a scutellar row and an extreme marginal row, 

 the punctures themselves being shallow; interstices somewhat 

 raised. Underside smooth, shining; presternum narrow and 

 elongate ; abdominal sternites sparsely hairy. 



Lengthy 2 mm. 



Ceylon (Thwaites); Peradeniya, 1. x. 1913 (F. Rutherford). 

 Type in the British Museum. 



5. 

 6. 



P. striatipennis, Jac, p. 277. 



P. niyripennis, Jac, p. 277. 

 8. 



P. boivrinyi, Balv, p. 278. 

 9. 



P. madurensis, Jac, p. 279. 

 P. dohertyi. sp. n., p. 280. 



