E U C YC L A . — T J I R YL.E A . 



faintl} r and narrowly along the middle to the front end, where it 

 spreads out transversely on each side; elytra greenish-black, the 

 suture from about the middle to the hind end narrowly, and the 

 extreme apices, red-brown ; scutellum brown. 



Head finely punctate, frontal tubercles not very strongly deve- 

 loped, interantennal carina present ; in the interocular space there 

 are two obliquely impressed lines meeting in the centre. Antennae 

 extending to a little distance beyond the base of the pronotum ; 

 'first segment long, curved, slender and club-shaped, equal to the 

 following three together, second thicker and larger than third, 

 fourth slightly shorter than third, fourth, fifth and sixth short 

 and of about equal length ; from the seventh to the eleventh the 

 segments are thicker, more bristly and larger. Prothorax much 

 broader than long, slightly narrowed in front, front margin 

 straight, hind margin sinuate at each side with a rounded median 

 lobe, sides straight but oblique, slightly margined, anterior lateral 

 angles oblique and thickened, at each of the four lateral angles 

 is a strongly developed base for a fine .seta ; surface uniformly 

 convex, more or less closely punctate. Scutellum triangular, with 

 sides and apex rounded, and surface smooth and impunctate. 

 Elytra: each elytron has eleven longitudinal rows of punctures, 

 including a short scutellar and an extreme marginal row; the 

 intervals do not appear to be quite flat, they are very minutely 

 punctate, and that between the last row and the last but one is 

 broader than the others ; all the rows converge in pairs towards 

 the apex ; the lateral edges are slightly margined. Underside 

 covered with fine hairs. 



Length, 2± mm. 



Ceylon :~Bogawantalaw-a, 4900-5200 ft., 21. iii-4. iv. 1882 

 • (67. Lewis). 



Type in the British Museum. The above description is drawn 

 up from the example marked " type." 



Genus THRYLiEA, Jacob y. 

 Thrylcea, Jac., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1887, p. 98. 

 Genotype, Thrylcea variabilis. Jac. 



Body subovate, rounded. Head : eyes rather large ; frontal 

 tubercles in the shape of oblique narrow ridges. Prothorax 

 broader than long, anterior angles obliquely truncate, surface 

 without any transverse ante-basal furrow. Elytra punctate- 

 striate, their epipleura broad and continued to the apex. Under- 

 side: tibiae not channelled dorsally ; first segment of posterior 

 tarsi as long as the two following segments together ; prosternum 

 broad, one-half longer than broad; mesosternum transverse, sub- 

 - quadrate ; anterior coxal cavities open. 

 Range. Ceylon. 



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