oct. — dec. 1856.] Descriptions of neio Ceylon Coleopter a. 63 



giore. Thorax oblongus basin versus angustatus, parce punctula- 

 tus, antice lateribus deflexus, postice dorsoque planus, basi 2-im- 

 pressus. Elytra striata, ad strias, praecipue apicem versus, sub- 

 tilissime pilosa, flavo-marginata. Pedes flavi, spinulis castaneis. 

 Abdomen flavo-marginatum. 



Specimen singulum m. in ripis Malia-Oyae fluminis prope Ne- 

 gombo cepi. 



Distinguished by its elongate shape. The head is of a bright 

 green color with the labrum and the mandables of deep, and the 

 antennae and palpi of a light brown, the latter being darkened to- 

 wards the end. The thorax is of the same color as the head re- 

 flecting a copper hue from the back, its anterior angles are obtuse, 

 the basal ones being right. The elytra are of the same greenish 

 copper color but darker, they are impressed with longitudinal lines, 

 which are bordered on each side by a row of minute hairs. They 

 as well as the abdomen have a yellowish margin. 



4. Chlcenius cupricollis. N. 

 C. subconvexus, subglabratus, capite thoraceque cupreis, elytris 

 nigro-seneis, limbo pedibusque flavis, subtus piceus. Long. corp. 

 m. 5f — f. 6J lin. 



Prsecedenti affinis. Caput ante oculos indistincte 2-impressium. 

 Thorax ut in prsecedente sed minor, antice lateribus magis deflexus, 

 linea media impressionibusque basalibus longitudinalibus, prsecipue 

 inf., profundioribus. Pedes flavi, trochanteribus spinulisque cas- 

 taneis. Elytra prsecedentis. 



In prov. occid. fluminum lacuumque ripis infrequenter legi. 



Allied to the former but easily distinguished by size, color and 

 sculpture of the thorax. The male is shorter and the female plump- 

 er than the former. The thorax is smaller and, as is also the head, 

 of a bright copper color with greenish sides, its impressions, espe- 

 cially in the female, are deeper and its anterior part laterally more 

 deflexed. Moreover the yellowish margin of the abdomen is want- 

 ing and the tooth of the mentum is not excavated. The elytra, an- 

 tennse and palpi are, making allowances for size etc., those of the 

 former. 



