No. 9. — 1856-8.] new ceylon coleoptera. 



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This insect looks uncommonly like an ant. Tt is easily 

 distinguished from all other species of the Island, partly by 

 this resemblance, partly by the sculpture of the thorax and 

 the white fascia across the elytra. The antennas are robust^ 

 thickened towards the tip, the three last joints forming a club. 

 The legs have the femora very much incrassated, the tibiae at 

 the apex bicalcarate, and the tarsi, especially of the anterior 

 pair, very hairy below, the fourth joint appears to be slightly 

 cordiform. The white marks of the shoulders and the fascia 

 across the wing-covers are composed of white hairs, the 

 former are rather an interrupted row of these than true 

 maculae, the fascia consists of two halves, one in either 

 elytron, reaching neither the external margin nor the suture.:. 

 The insect is of slow motion. 



18. Anthicus insulanus. N. 



A. testaceus, abdomine obscuriore, capite thoraceque rafo-testaceiSj 

 elytris fasciis 2 nigris, parce pilosus. Long. corp. 1£-1£ lin. 



Caput globosum oculis mediocribus. Thorax pyriformis, cum capite 

 supra punctata. Elytra ovata. Tarsi art. 4° bilobo 



Prope Negpmbo,in»pratis sat eopiosus. 



In some of the specimens before me the anterior femora 

 are furnished with a strong thorn inside, having at the same 

 time the tibiae of the same pair of legs slightly emarginated 

 inside near the apex. 



19, Meligethes Orient&lis. N. 



M. ovatus, subconvexus, pilosus, supra nigro-asneus, subtus piceus, 

 pedibus, antennis palpisque maxill. dilutrioribus, tarsis palpisque labiaL 

 brunneo-aureis. Jkong. corp, 1-X£ lim 



Mentum transversuin planum, punctatum, lobis apice depressis ex. 

 cavatis, glabris obtusis. Palpi lab. art. ultimo, inflato, ovato ; maxill 

 art . ultimo apice angustato levissime truncato Mandibulas uni dentatoe. 

 Thorax amplus angulis acutis, antice emarginatus, postice pluries sinua. 

 tus, subtus punctatus. Elytra ovato -quadrata, anguljs 4 apicalibus 

 rotundatis, pygidium haud obtegentia. Pedes validi,. femoribus tibi- 

 isque incrassatis; anteriores tibiis apice intus unispinosis, tarsis art. 

 1-3 fortiter dilatatis, 1.2 subaequalibus transversis, profunde reniform. 

 ifous, 3° minore, cordato, 4° minimo, subcyliudrico ; intermed. et post 



