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anterior angles slightly expanded, each possessing a seta, posterior 

 angles acute ; surface convex from side to side, smooth and irn- 

 punctsite; in front of the base and parallel to it is a transverse 

 channel, not reaching the sides, and containing a few punctures. 

 Scutellum triangular, smooth and impunctate. Elytra at the base 

 hardly broader than the prothorax ; each elytron has eleven regular 

 longitudinal rows of punctures, including a short scutellar and an 



Fig. \3\.—Alytus oeylonensis, Jac. 



extreme marginal row ; a longitudinal strip along the margin is 

 somewhat bent inwards. Underside strongly convex along the 

 middle, sloping dorsalwards at the sides, generally impunctate, 

 the abdominal sternites having a few fine scattered punctures. 



Length, 2-3 mm. ; breadth, 1| mm. ; length of antenna, nearly 

 3 mm. 



Ceylon: Bogawantalawa, 4900-5200 ft., 28. ii-12. iii. 1882 

 (6r. Lewis). 



Type in the British Museum. 



Genus PHILOGEUS, Jaeoby. 

 Philogeus, Jac, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1887, p. 95. 

 Genotype, Philogeus fidvipennis, Jac. 



Body ovate, convex, subcylindrical. Head with frontal tubercles 

 obsolete ; eyes large ; maxillary palpi robust. Antennae robust, 

 dilated towards apex. Prothorax quadrate, convex, with a shallow 

 transverse depression in front of the basal margin. Elytra finely 

 punctate-striate. Underside: prosternum longer than broad; 

 anterior coxal cavities open; mesosternum transversely sub- 

 quadrate ; posterior femora strongly incrassate ; posterior tibia? 



