52 Descriptions of new Ceylon Cohoptera. [no. 3, new series, 
and simple as above described. The ligula is small, oblong, very 
slightly narrowed and transversely cut away at the apex, the pa- 
raglossse separate from its sides a little below the anterior corners ; 
they are setiform and reach much beyond it. The whole organ is 
of membranaceous texture having, however, a more substantial 
centre or back. The thorax and elytra aw? simple and sufficiently 
described above, i. may add that the former is divided by a longi- 
tudinal furrow and that both are furnished with a narrow margin at 
the sides. The scutellum is very small and the abdomen furnish- 
ed with a short peduncle. The legs are weak, simple and nearly 
equal, the anterior tibise are deeply notched, the lower margin of 
the fourth tarsal joint of the same pair is furnished with along thin 
spine, the apex of which fite in between the claws. I have been 
unable to discover any footbrushes or other sexual distinctions in 
the specimens before me, but it is not improbable that the tarsal 
spine just mentioned occurs only in one sex. 
The habits of the insect are those of the Bemhidia in whose so- 
ciety it lives upon the banks of rivers, taking like them readily 
to its wings. I have found it occasionally in considerable numbers 
upon the sandy banks of the Maha Oya in the neighbourhood of 
Negombo close to the edge of the water. 
Trib, Lebiidce vel Pericalidge. 
Creagris. n. g, N. 
Corpus oblongum valde depressum. Caput magnum robustum ; 
oculis mediocribus, ovatis, sat prominulis ; collo brevi. Mentum 
forma ferri equini vel trifurcatum (hinc n. g. Creagris) lobis 
angustis, subparallelis, apice oblique truncatis, dente lobis parum 
breviore, tenui, acutissimo. Ligula magna, cornea, angulis anticis 
rotundatis, paraglossis connatis, marginem anteriorem non attin- 
gentibus. Palpi maxill. art. 4° claviformi, apice fortiter truncate ; 
labiales art. 4 subelliptico, truncato. Labium maximum, subor- 
biculatum, gonvexum. Mandibulse parvee, basi obsolete uniden- 
tatse, labro obtectse. Antennae robustse humeros attingentes, 
art. 1, 3 et 11 longitudine fere subasquali, mediocribus, 2° parvo, 
rotundato, 4-10 subsequalibus, cum 11° ovatis. Thorax parvus 
capite sesqui minor, transversus longitudine duplo fere latior, 
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