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HALTICINiE. 



convex, smooth and im punctate, without any depressions. Scu- 

 tellum broadly ovate, smooth and impunctate. Elytra broader 

 than prothorax, confusedly and strongly punctate. Underside 

 shining, impunctate, and glabrous. 



Length, 2 mm. ; breadth, lh mm. ; length of antenna, about 

 1 mm. 



Ceylon : Dikoya, 3800-4200 ft., 25-27. ii. 1882 (G. Lewis). 

 Type in the British Museum. 



Parathrylea, Duviv., Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxvi, 1892, p. 420. 

 Genotype, Parathrylea apicipennis, Duviv. 



Body oblong-ovate, convex, smooth. Head with vertex broad 

 and somewhat convex, frontal tubercles not very well developed, 

 separated from the vertex by a Y-shaped impression, interantennal 

 space rather broad, the carina absent. Antennae short, extending 

 a little beyond the base of the pronotum, thickened towards the 

 apex. Prothorax much broader than long, somewhat narrowed in 

 front, front margin more or less nearly straight, hind margin with 

 a median lobe, which is rounded, the margin on each side being 

 oblique ; surface somewhat convex ; no ante-basal transverse 

 furrow. Scutellum triangular, with apex broadly rounded. Elytra 

 hardly broader at base than prothorax, ovate, narrowed towards 

 the apex, surface generally punctate. Underside : prosternal 

 process narrowed in front and triangularly broadened behind 

 anterior coxal cavities open behind. Legs long, more or less- 



Fig. 116. — Amphhneloides dorsalis, Jac. 



Genus PARATHRYLEA, Duvivier. 



