54 Descriptions of new Ceylon Coleoptera. [no, 3, new series, 



and formed into a short neck. The antennae are strong, and reach 

 to the shoulders, joints 1 3 and 11 are of about equal length, mid- 

 dling, the former two subcylindric, joint 2 is small, rounded, 4-10 

 subequal and with the 11th oval. The thorax is small, only half as 

 large as the head, rather narrowed, strongly transverse, twice as 

 broad as long, slightly emarginated in front, the anterior angles 

 rounded, contracted below the middle, subquadratic and prolonged 

 at the base, posterior angles depressed, longitudinally divided by 

 a deep furrow. The elytra are striated and, as well as the thorax, 

 densely punctured and thinly pubescent. The legs are strong, 

 simple and subequal, the anterior tibiae are deeply notched, the first 

 joint of the tarsi is as long as the two succeeding ones together, 

 subcylindric, the 2nd triangular, the 3rd of a similar but more trans- 

 verse form, smaller — all three have the apical angles acuminated, 

 the 4th is large and deeply bilobed, the 5th middling, thin, the 

 claws simple. The tarsi are altogether short and strong, the first 

 joint is furnished with longer, the 2nd and 3rd with shorter stiff 

 hair, whilst the 4th is strongly penicillated below. The anterior 

 tibiae are slightly spinose, the others more so. 



I believe the only specimen of this insect which has hitherto 

 come into my possession, and which has served as the type for the 

 above description, to be a female. 



Trib. Galeeitidje. 



Heteroglossa. n. g. N. 



Corpus oblongum, subparallelum, depressum tenuiter hirsutum. 

 Caput mediocre oculis semiglobosis, sat prominulis ; collo brevi. 

 Mentum sat profunde subquadrate emarginatum, lobis magnis extus 

 fortiter rotundatis, apice abrupte acuminatis, dente magno exca- 

 vato, apice inflecto obtuso, magis minusve profunde sinuato. Ligu- 

 la subcornea apice libera, truncata, vel quadrata vel obconica 

 vel leviter bi-sinuata, paraglossis cylindricis, marginem anterio- 

 rem longissime superantibus, magis minusve arcuatis. Palpi hir- 

 suti, art. ultimo sat elongato, subcylindrico, apice truncato vel 

 subtrigono. Labrum transversum antice emarginatum. Mandi- 

 bulae validae, trigonae, apice arcuatae, basi pluries dentatae. An- 

 tennae robustae, corporis med. attingentes, art. 1° incrassato se- 



