PHILOGEUS. — MANOBIA. 



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broad, smooth and iinpunctate, with apex broadly rounded. Elytra 

 broader than pro thorax ; on each elytron there are about eleven 

 rows of punctures, including a rather long scutellar and an extreme 

 marginal row ; the punctures themselves are very fine and in 

 many places almost obsolescent, thus rendering the counting 

 of: the rows difficult ; interstices, seen under a high power, 

 extremely minutely and sparsely punctate. Underside : smooth, 

 shining, impunctate. 



Length, 3 mm. ; breadth, 2 mm. 



Ceylon : ])ikoya, 3800-4200 ft., 6. xii. 1881-16. i. 1882 

 (6r. Lewis). 



Type in ihe British Museum. 



Genus MANOBIA, Jacoby. 

 Manobia, Jac, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxii, 1885, p. 73. 



Genotype, Manobia nigripennis, .Jacoby (Sumatra). This is the 

 first species which Jacoby described when erecting the genus. 



Body ovate-subquadrate, convex. Head : antennas almost as 

 long as the body, the four or five terminal segments slightly 

 thickened. Prothorax subquadrate, its surface with a deeply 

 impressed line in front of the basal margin. Scutellum broadly 

 ovate, its apex rounded. Elytra broader at base than prothorax, 

 deeply depressed behind the base, the latter strongly raised;, 

 surface punctate-striate, the seriate punctures deep and large. 

 Underside : front coxal cavities open behind ; posterior femora 

 strongly incrassate ; tibiae slender, the front and middle pairs 

 without any spine at the apex, the posterior pair with a small 

 spine at the apex ; first segment of posterior tarsi equal to the 

 two following together ; claws appendiculate. 



Range. India, Ceylon, Sumatra, Java. 



Key to the Species. 



Antennae black, with the four or five basal 



segments and the last segment brown . . M. apicicornis, Jac, p. 407. 

 Antennae always entirely brown M. dorsalis, Jac, p. 409. 



329. Manobia apicicornis, Jacoby. 



Manobia apicicornis, Jac, Proc Zool. Soc Lond. 1887, p. 89. 



Body oblong, somewhat narrowed at the apex. Colour piceous 

 or black ; head, prothorax and legs deep brown ; antennas black 

 with the four or five basal and the last segment brown ; elytra 

 black with the apex brown. Sometimes the insect is entirely deep 

 brown, and in some cases obscure piceous with the tibiae brown. 



Head impunctate ; frontal tubercles strongly raised, of an 

 elongate triangular shape, delimited behind by a deep transverse 

 impression which extends to the inner margins of the eyes- 



