Ceylon Coleoptera, 8fc. 



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A handsome species of more or less deep chestnut color 

 with lighter legs and antenna?. The head is large, heavy and 

 . from the eyes to the neck strongly triangular, the occiput 

 and thorax are covered with long hair, which adds much 

 to the peculiar appearance of the insect. The antennas are 

 thick and robust, the club 4-jointed. The thorax is subqua- 

 dratic at the base up to the middle and conic towards 

 the apex. The punctures or pits at the base are 4 in number. 

 The scutellum is small. The humeral costal are stronger 

 developed than in any of the other species and traceable 

 to the middle of the elytra. The tibia? are nearly straight, 

 subcylindric at the apex, the 4 anterior ones hairy. The 

 tarsi have joints 2-4 nearly subequal. 



B. species without a neck. 



36. Scydimlenus ovatus. N. 



S. ovatus, convexus, brunneus; long. corp. ^ lin. 



Caput subquadrato-ovatum. Antennae art. 3-11 sensim incrassatis, 

 9-11 subglobosis, depressis cum 11° magno, conico clavam formantibus. 

 Palpi maxill. art. 4° minuto acuniinato. Thorax ampins semiorbicularis, 

 margine posteriore medio producto, basi 2-foveolatus. 



The color of this insect is as usual shaded off from brown 

 to light yellow; however, in other respects it differs materi- 

 ally from all the preceding species. The body is regularly 

 oval, thorax and elytra convex, pubescent. The head is 

 subquadratic-ovate ; the eyes rather small, but prominent ; 

 the neck is altogether wanting. The antenna? are at the 

 base as distant from each other as they can be being inserted 

 below the eyes; the club is 3 -jointed; the joints increase 

 gradually in size from the 3rd to the 11th. The maxill 

 palpi have the 2nd joint slender, the 3rd rather pear-shaped, 

 the 4th minute and acuminated. The thorax is very ample, 

 semiorbicular, of the shape and nearly the size of the apical 



