MORYLUS. 



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segments are short but the latter is slightly longer than the 

 second, the fourth is much longer than the third, the rest about 

 equal ; also in some of these examples the postmedian elytral ribs 

 are not prominent. 



Type in the British Museum. 



Genus MORYLUS, Jacoby. 

 Morylus, Jac, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1887, p. 99. 

 Genotype, Morylus fulvipennis, Jac. 



Body ovate, convex. Head : frontal tubercles reduced to two 

 ridges extending to the interantennal space and enclosing a deep 

 furrow. Eyes large, entire. Penultimate segment of the labial 

 palpi thickened, the terminal segment being small, conical, and 

 pointed. Antenna* long and more or less stout. Prothoraxr 

 broader than long, anterior angles obliquely and slightly expanded. 

 Scutellum broader than long with the surface finely shagreened. 

 Elytra confusedly punctate. Underside: epipleura of the elytra 

 narrowly extended up to the apex. Prosternum broad ; anterior 

 coxal cavities open. Mesosternum much broader than long. Pos- 

 terior tibiae deeply channelled on their upper side ; posterior 

 femora strongly incrassate ; first segment of the posterior tarsi 

 almost as long as the two following segments together ; claws 

 appendiculate. 



Range. Ceylon. 



300. Morylus fulvipeunis, Jacoby. 



Morylus fulvipennis, Jac, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1887, p. 99. 



Body ovate, convex. Colour of elytra dark shining brown ; 

 underside pitch-brown ; head, prothorax and legs black with 

 brow r nish tinge ; terminal segments of antennae black. 



Head: vertex convex, impunctate, delimited from the front by 

 a deep transverse channel; between the antennae there is a deep 

 longitudinal furrow, bounded on each side by a ridge which bends 

 round, meeting the eye and enclosing a large concave area round 

 the root of the antenna; these ridges can be said to be homo- 

 logous to the frontal tubercles ; the concave area between the eye 

 and the root of the antenna extends forwards to the base of the 

 mouth-parts. Antennae somewhat robust and a little shorter 

 than the length of the body ; first segment long, club-shaped, 

 second thickened but shorter than the third, which is slender and 

 almost equal to the fourth, the fifth is also of about the same 

 length as the preceding segment but stouter; from the sixth 

 onwards the segments become thicker, opaque, and sparsely 

 covered with bristly hairs. Prothorax broader than long, basal 

 margin widely arcuate, sides straight ; each of the posterior angles 

 possesses a seta-bearing pore, and at each anterior angle the 

 margin is slightly expanded, having an oblique straight edge, 



