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HALTICIN E. 



front vertical, elevated between the antennae, clypeus cuneiform, 

 raised behind, frontal tubercles transverse and contiguous. Eyes 

 large, oblong. Antennae with their bases very close together; in 

 the males of some species they are somewhat longer than the 

 body, but shorter in the female ; first segment very long, club- 

 shaped ; the distal segments are progressively thickened towards 

 the apex, and the last segment is compressed and elongate-ovate. 

 Prothoraos much broader than long, longest along the longitudinal 

 middle line, basal margin bisinuate on each side, with a rounded 

 lobe in the middle ; no ante-basal furrow. Scutellum triangular. 

 Elytra hardly broader than prothorax at base, regularly punctate- 

 striate ; punctures deep, interstices slightly raised. Underside : 

 prosternum transverse ; anterior coxal cavities open behind. 

 Legs robust ; posterior femora strongly incrassate ; dorsal side of 

 tibiae flat, concave towards the distal end ; posterior tibiae with a 

 very minute spine at the apex ; tarsi large ; claws appendiculate. 

 Range. Sumatra, Borneo, Ceylon. 



Fig. 114. — Eucycla ceylonensis, Jac. 



221. Eucycla ceylonensis, Jacoby. 



Eucycla ceylonensis, Jac, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1887, p. 87. 



(if: Body ovate, strongly convex. Head, pronotum, underside and 

 legs, red-brown ; the three basal segments of the antennae brown 

 with the upper side piceous, the remaining segments black ; pro- 

 notum with the median basal part black, the latter colour extending 



