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CIC1NDELIM. 



antennae very long, filiform, pitchy ; legs red or testaceous, 

 apex of tibise and the tarsi pitchy; apex of elytra produced 

 into a point which is more evident in the female than in the 

 male. 



Length 10-12 millim. 



Central Ceylon : Balangoda Eidge, Kandy, July (E. E. Green). 



The var. obscnripes, Bates, has the legs of a rather dark testa- 

 ceous red colour and the apices of the tibise and tarsi darker 

 piceous. 



65. Derocrania agues, W. Horn. 



Derocrania agues, W. Horn, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1905, p. 64 ; 

 id., Gen. Insect. Cicind. pi. 8, fig. 4. 



Closely allied to D. nietneri, hut much more slender, with the 

 head very slightly smaller and the collum of the pronotum evi- 

 dently longer; the elytra are somewhat more elongate, with the 

 sculpture more evident, slightly coarser in front, less evanescent 

 in the middle, and about as distinct behind as it is on the central 

 portion in I), nietneri ; the legs are much longer than in the last- 

 named species, and the lateral portious of the rnentum, which in 

 that species are spinose and strongly deflexed, are much shorter, 

 less blunt and straighter ; the trochanters are pitchy brown, and 

 the femora and tibia? reddish brown, the latter being more or less 

 black ; the tarsi and antennas are black or partly metallic. 



Length V6h millim. 



Ceylon. 



66. Derocrania fiisiformis, W. Horn. 



Derocrania fusif or mis, W. Horn, Spol. Zeyl. 1904, p. 35, pi. 7, fig. 1. 



Very closely allied to D. gibbiceps, but narrower, with the fore- 

 head between the eyes even less excavate, and the two longi- 

 tudinal sulci less distinct and shorter, not reaching beyond the 

 juxta- orbital impressions ; the dilated portion of the pronotum is 

 less cylindrical and more narrowed in front, and the free anterior 

 margin is less deeply emarginate ; the elytra are narrower and 

 more parallel-sided, much less dilated in the middle and behind, 

 and more finely and a little more thickly punctured ; the tibia? 

 and tarsi are brownish and not cyaneous, and the pronotum and 

 elytra have no metallic tinge. 



Jjength 13-13| millim. (sine labro). 



Ceylon. 



Dr. Horn compares this species with D. nietneri as well as with 

 D. gibbiceps ; it is, however, apparently much more closely allied 

 to the latter species. The lighter legs, metallescent colour, and, 

 above all, the sculpture of the elytra, will at once separate it from 

 J), nietneri ; the colour, however, can hardly be depended upon as 

 a character in the case of a unique specimen. 



