18^ Descriptions of new Ceylon Coleoptera. [no. 2, new serihs, 
Caput globosum supra subtusque profunde punctatum, oculis 
parvis. Thorax nodoso-pyriformis, infra medium constrictus, parte 
anteriore crassiore lin. long. med. profunde divisa, subcordiformi. 
Elytra elliptica. 
Sub veget. putrescent, victitat, prope Colombo rarius legi. 
This insect looks uncommonly like an ant. It is easily distin- 
guished from all other species of the Island partly by this resem- 
blance, partly by the sculpture of the thorax and the white fascia 
across the elytra. The antennae 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 4th joint 
appears to be slightly cordiform. The white marks of the shoul- 
ders 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. 
24. Anthicus insulanus. N. 
A. testaceus, abdomine obscuriore, capite thoraceque rufotesta- 
ceis, elytris fasciis 2 nigris, parce pilosus. Long corp. IJ-lJ lin. 
Caput globosum oculis mediocris. Thorax pyriformis, cum 
capite supra punctata. Elytra ovata. Tarsi art 4° bilobo. 
Prope Negombo in pratis sat copiosus. 
In some of the specimens before me the anterior femora are fur- 
nished with a strong thorn inside having at the same time the tibiae 
of the same pair of legs slightly emarginated inside near the apex 
— I have reason to believe these individuals, if the distinction be a 
jsexual one, to be females not males. 
25. Meligethes orientalis. N. 
M. ovatus, subconvexus, pilosus, supra nigro-aeneus, subtus pi- 
ceus, pedibus, antennis palpisque maxill. dilutioribus, tarsis pal- 
pisque labial, brunneo-aureis. Long. corp. 1-1 J lin. 
Mentum transversum planum, punctatum, lobis apice depressis 
pxcavatis, glabris, obtusis Palpi lab. art. ultimo inflato, ovalo ; 
