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



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Of light brown color, the head darker, the elytra blackish 

 on the back with a slight blue reflect, the base, sides and 

 apex brownish ; the colors being more or less washed into 

 each other no distinct pattern is observable. The brown spot 

 of the apex, however, is generally pretty clearly set off from 

 the adjoining dark part. The paragloss33 are hardly longer 

 than the ligula which itself is rather large. The antenna are 

 rather hairy and strongly filiform, (not, as in most other 

 species, increasing in thickness towards the apex, the joints 

 growing at the same time more and more oval) ; joint 3 is the 

 shortest, 2 and 4 are rather longer than the other. The back 

 is impressed with three to four distinct stria3 on either side of 

 the suture, the external ones being obsolete as are also the re- 

 maining ones towards the apex. There is an additional deep 

 stria within the marginal one, extending from the middle to 

 the apex. Before the middle, and before the apex, there is a 

 puncture situated upon the fourth interstice ; the anteapical one 

 of these has a hair in the centre and is prolonged to the apical 

 angle in the shape of a deep, curved furrow. This being the 

 case on either side 5 the two furrows together form a semicircular 

 figure. The tarsi are each furnished with bristles, especially 

 at the lower margin of the apex of the joints. In the four 

 anterior tarsi joint 4 is furnished at that place with two long 

 bristles the apex of which fits in at the base of the claws. 

 : These bristles partake somewhat of the nature of squamulas 

 by being dilated in the shape of a lancet. I have noticed 

 them occasionally to be bifid at the apex, but I do not think 

 that they are so always. 



56. Bembidium triangulare. N. 



B. oblongum, depression, testaeeum, capite brunneo, elytris sutura fas- 

 ciaque lata transversal! media nigris pedibus, palpis antennisque pallide 

 testaceis his medio fuscescentibus ; long. corp. 1. lin. 



Prascedenti affine, ejus capite, thorace et tarsis, differt thorace linea 

 basali punctata, infra lineam vix strigoso ; elytris utrinque prof unde 6- 

 punctato-striatis, striis apicem marginemque versus sensim obsoletis, ante 

 medium in stria 4 a puncto impresso, stria inf ramarginali abbreviata et 

 1 impressione semicirculari apicali ut in prajcedente. 



