No. 9. — 1856-8.] NEW CEYLON COLEOPTERA. 



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have before me Erichson's figure and description of the 

 Sicilian (E. pcederinus, with which I find my species 

 strongly to agree. It differs, however, from the former 

 materially in the following three points, viz., the wings, the 

 sculpture of the wing-covers, and the last antennal joint. 

 The fact that this species has wings, would render an 

 alteration in Erichson's diagnosis of the genus necessary, 

 it being characterized therein as " apterous". The elytra are 

 not so much contracted and rounded at the base, and, 

 being longer than the thorax, have therefore a more ob- 

 long, subquadratic appearance. As in the above typical 

 species, they are, however, rounded at the sides and broadset 

 a little below the middle. They are about twice as broad at 

 the base as the adjoining part of the thorax ; and in their 

 broadest part rather more than a third broader than the tho- 

 rax in its. The third point, in which the two species differ, 

 is the last joint of the antennae, which, in this case, is strongly 

 truncated at the tip and slightly excavated. They are further 

 distinguished by the distribution of the colours, my species 

 being of a dark yellowish red, thorax lighter, head, elytra and 

 three last abdominal segments black, elytra with two reddish 

 spots at the apex, legs yellowish, at the apex of the femora 

 and base of the tibiae blackish, the mouth is brown, the maxill. 

 palpi yellowish with the three first joints dark at the base, the 

 antennae have the six basal joints dark excepting at the apex, 

 where they, as well as the five remaining ones, are yellowish. 

 In all other points 1 find the insect to agree entirely with the 

 typical CE. pee lerinua : the palpi, legs, and anal segment of 

 abdomen are of the same structure, the hairy vestiture is ex- 

 actly the same in the different parts of the body of my species 

 as it is in the corresponding ones oi Erichson's. 



