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the suture the sixth, seventh ami eighth arise behind the humeral 

 prominence, the tenth lies along the extreme margin ; the inter- 

 stices appear very slightly raised when seen at certain angles, and 

 that between the ninth and tenth is broadest. Underside smooth 

 and impunctate. 



Length, 3 mm.; breadth, 2 mm. 



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

 (6r. Lewis). 



Type in the British Museum. 



Genus AMPHIMELOIDES, Jacoby. 

 Amphimeloides, Jac, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1887, p. 96. 

 Genotype; Amphimeloides dorsalis, Jac. 



Body ovate, convex. Bead: maxillary palpi long, with apical 

 segment small, conical, pointed ; the antennae are not close to- 

 gether, but inserted close to the eyes, and are thickened towards 

 the apex. Prothoracc broader than long, convex, sides angulate in 

 front of the middle ; no transverse ante-basal furrow. Elytra 

 irregularly punctate. Underside-, prosternum very narrow, but 

 distinct; anterior coxal cavities open; mesosternum emarginate ; 

 posterior femora strongly incrassate ; posterior tibiae dilated and 

 slightly longitudinally sulcate near their apices, which are armed 

 with a long pointed spine ; the bilobed segment of the tarsi is not 

 expanded, insignificant: claw-segment strong; claws appendiculate. 



The considerable space between the insertion of the antennae is 

 an important character of this genus, which is also distinguished 

 from Amphimela by the open coxal cavities. 



Range. Ceylon. 



223. Amphimeloides dorsalis, Jacoby. 



Amphimeloides dorsalis, Jac, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1887, p. 96. 



Colour brown ; the six apical segments of the antennae black ; 

 the metasternum and the sides of the lower surface of the thorax, 

 the first abdominal sternite partly, and the dorsal side of the 

 femora, piceous ; scutellum and a broad longitudinal, but abbre- 

 viated, median band on each elytron, black. 



Head: vertex smooth and impunctate, frontal elevations or 

 interantennal carina absent ; clypeus not separated from the face, 

 which forms a flat surface ; when the head is viewed from the 

 front a short depression is visible along the inner side of the eyes, 

 the antennae being inserted in these depressed areas. Antennas 

 nearly half the length of the body ; first segment elongate, club- 

 shaped, second slightly shorter and thicker than the third, which 

 is slender, fourth and fifth equal in length ; from the sixth to the 

 last the segments gradually thicken and together form an elongate 

 club. Prothorax much broader than long, front margin emar- 

 ginate, basal margin widely rounded, sides rounded ; surface 



