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72. Derocrania scitiscabra, Walk. 



Derocrania scitiscabra, Walker, Ann. Nat. Hist. (3) iii, 1859, p. 51. 

 Derocrania dohrni, Chaudoir, Bull. Soc. Moscou, 1860, p. 297. 



Black, or black with a very obscure aeneous reflection, much 

 Avidened behind, of a dark and scabrous appearance ; head strongly 

 excavate, with the central portion flat and smooth and the sulci 

 very strongly marked, divergent at base, with a large arcuate 



Fig. 131. — Derocrania scitiscabra. 



posterior excavation just behind them ; orbital striae faint, some- 

 times almost wanting ; pronotum long, with a long and distinct, 

 but not very abrupt, collum, hinder part moderately widened, 

 upper surface more or less distinctly striolate, basal constriction 

 not strong ; elytra strongly and closely sculptured throughout 

 except at the extreme tip, somewhat rugose at the base, apical 

 portion more or less coarsely punctured ; they are strongly widened 

 behind, more so in the female than in the male, but are not very 

 markedly gibbose ; in both sexes the apices of the elytra terminate 

 externally in a short point ; antennae and legs black or pitchy ; 

 underside rather shiny, glabrous, or with indistinct traces of striae 

 on the pro- and meso-sternum. 



Length 17-19 millim. 



Ceylon : Kandy. 



This species lives in the forest, running moderately fast on 

 tree-trunks, seldom on the ground (Born). 



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