182 Descriptions of new Ceylon Colcoptcra. [no. 2, new serifs, 



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 antennas 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. Anthieus insulanus. N. 



A. testaceus, abdomine obscuriore, capite thoraceque rufotesta- 

 ceis, elytris fasciis 2 nigris, parce pilosus. Long corp. 1 J-l J lin. 



Caput globosum oculis mediocris. Thorax pyriformis, cum 

 capite supra punctata. Elytra ovata. Tarsi art 4° bilobo. 



Prope Negombo in prati3 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 

 sexual 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. lin. 



Mentum transversum planum, punctatum, lobis apice depressis 

 excavatigj glabris, obtusis Palpi lab. art, ultimo inflato, oyato ; 



