202 Descriptions of new Ceylon Coleoptera. [no. new series, 
A handsome species of more or less deep chestnut color with 
lighter legs and antennae. The head is large, heavy and from the 
eyes to the neck strongly triangular, the occiput and thorax are 
Covered with long hair, which adds much to the peculiar appear- 
ance of the insect. The antennae are thick and robust, the club 
4-jointed. The thorax is subquadrate at the base up to the mid- 
dle and conic towards the apex. The punctures or pits at the 
base are four in number. The scutellum is small. The humeral 
costae are stronger developed than in any of the other species and 
traceable to the middle of the elytra. The tibiae are nearly straight, 
subcylindric at the apex, the 4 anterior "ones hairy. The tarsi have 
joints 2-4 nearly subequal. o 
B. Species without a neck. 
42. Sci/dmcsnus ovatus N. 
S, ovatus, convexus, brunneus ; long. corp. | lin. 
Caput subquadrato-ovatum. Antennae art. 3-1 1 sensim incras- 
satis, 9-11 subglobosis, depressis, cum 11° magno, conico clavam 
formantibus. Palpi maxill. art. 4° minuto acuminate. Thorax 
amplus semwrhicularis, margine posteriore medio producto, basi 2 
foveolatus. Tarsis art 1-4 subaequalibus. 
The color of this insect is as usual shaded off from brown to 
light yellow ; however, in other respects it differs materially from 
all the preceding species. The body is regularly oval, thorax and 
elytra convex, pubescent. The head is subquadrato-ovate ; the 
eyes rather small, but prominent ; the neck is altogether wanting. 
The antennae are at the base as distant from each other as they 
can be being inserted below the eyes ; the club is 3-jointed ; the 
joints increase gradually in size from the 3rd to the 11th. The 
maxill. palpi have the 2nd joint slender, the 3rd rather pearshep- 
ed, the 4th minute and acuminated. The thorax is very ample, 
semiorbicular, of the shape and nearly the size of the apical half 
of the elytra, the basal angles are acuminated and slightly envelop 
the shoulders, the posterior margin is prolonged in the middle, 
towards the scutellum the foveas or basal impressions are 2 and 
rather distant from each other. Scutellum obsolete. Elytra with 
2 depressions at the base. Tibiae straight ; tarsi with joints 1-4 
subequal or very nearly so. Mesosternal carina middling. 
