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HALTICEOS. 



towards the sides ; along the middle of each elytron are two paira 

 of Dot very well-defined longitudinal rows, at a certain distance 

 from each other, both pairs being internal to the humerus ; along 

 the lateral part of each elytron there are three longitudinal rows, 

 including the extreme marginal row ; the interstice between the 

 inner two of these rows is narrow and raised, particularly towards 

 the apex, while that between the second of these rows and the 

 extreme marginal row is broad and similarly raised; humerus 

 prominent. Underside smooth, shining and impunctate ; tibiae 

 broadened towards their apices ; claws appendiculate. 

 Length, 4 mm, 



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

 (G. Leivis); Dikoya, 3800-4200 ft., 6. xii. 1881-16. i. 1882 

 (6r. Lewis). Motschulskv's specimens were from Nuwara Eliya, 

 about 8000 ft. 



The location of the type is unknown to me. 



348. Parlina fulva, Jacoby. 



Parlina fulva, Jac, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1887, p. 88. 



Body oblong-ovate. Colour fulvous ; the apical segments of 

 the antenna?, the tibiae and the tarsi, piceous ; the four basal 

 segments of the antennae fulvous ; sometimes the whole insect is 

 fulvous. 



Head impunctate, frontal tubercles small but distinct, carina 

 short ; penultimate segment of maxillary palpi thickened, the 

 apical segment short, acutely pointed. Antennae nearly as long as 

 the body ; second segment short, the following segments nearly 

 equal in length. Prothorax transverse, three times as broad as 

 long, sides rounded and narrowly margined, angles rather blunt, 

 scarcely prominent ; surface with a distinct transverse groove near 

 the base, not extending to the sides, and either scarcely visibly 

 punctured or entirely impunctate. Scutellum triangular. Elytra 

 without any basal depression, closely and finely but distinctly 

 punctured. Underside : posterior tibiae mucronate ; first segment 

 of posterior tarsi as long as the two following segments together; 

 claws appendiculate ; prosternum narrow ; anterior coxai cavities 

 open. 



Length, 4 mm. 



Ceylon. 



Type in the British Museum. 



G-enus LACTICA, Erichson. 



Lactica, Erichs., Arch. f. Naturg. 1847, xiii, i, p. 173 ; Chapuis, 

 Gen. Col. xi, 1875, p. 124 ; Jacoby, Biol. Centr.-Anier. vi, pt. i, 

 1884, p. 270. 



Camoena, Baly, Journ. of Ent. i, 1862, p. 458. 



Medonia, Baly, Journ. of Ent. i, 1862, p. 459. 



G-enotype, Lactica melaleuca, Erichs. (Peru). 



