330 



HALTIClNiE. 



comparing it with Sph. yracilenta, Mofcsch.; and No. (5) by com- 

 paring it with the European Sph. testacea, E. 



Although I have no means of examining the species described 

 by Motschulsky, I cannot entirely ignore them. They are, there- 

 fore, enumerated here without being incorporated in the generic 

 key or in the body of this work. 



Ivalia, Jac, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1887, p. 100. 



Genotype. Three species were described when this genus was 

 erected, and the first of these, Ivalia viridipennis, Jac, is here 

 designated as the genotype. 



Body ovate, very convex. Head broad, with vertex smooth and 

 convex, frontal tubercles and interanteunal carina obsolete ; bases 

 of antennae not very close together, but remote from the eye- 

 margins. Antennae short, hardly extending beyond the base of 

 the pronotum, usually with the seven apical segments thickened. 

 Prothoraoc broader than long, uniformly convex and smooth above, 

 without any impression at all. Scutellum small, insignificant. 

 Elytra not broader at the base than the prothorax, confusedly and 

 closely punctate. Underside : prosternal process narrowly elon- 

 gate ; anterior coxal cavities open behind ; mesos tern urn transverse ; 

 front and middle legs much shorter than the hind ones ; posterior 

 femora strongly incrassate ; posterior tibiae much longer than 

 either the front or middle tibiae, somewhat broadened at the apex, 

 the outer edge furnished with a series of spinules, the apex with 

 a long curved spine, the upper surface not deeply channelled (as 

 Jacoby erroneously states ; the channelled appearance is an optical 

 illusion) ; posterior tarsi long, with first segment equal to the 

 following two together, second segment small, third, i. e. the bi- 

 lobed segment, also small, claw-segment long, somewhat thickened 

 at the apex, projecting much beyond the bilobed segment ; claws 

 appendiculate. 



Range. Ceylon. 



245. Ivalia viridipennis, Jacoby. 



Ivalia viridipennis, Jac, Proc. Zool. Soc Lond. 1887, p. 100. 



Body ovate, pointed towards the apex. General colour rich 

 brown; elytra metallic green ; seven apical segments of antennae 

 black, three basal brownish, fourth piceous : the rich brown colour 

 may be reddish-brown. Out of five specimens before ine, two, 



Genus IVALIA, Jacoby. 



Key to the Species. 



Elytra metallic green 



Elytra metallic purplish or cupreous 

 Elytra dark brown 



i". viridipennis, Jac, p. 330. 

 I. metallica, Jac, p. 331. 

 I. fulvipennis, Jac, p. 332. 



