198 Descriptions of new Ceylon Coleoptera. [no. £, new series, 



which in a more or less compressed state is always perceptible ; in 

 some instances it is narrowed on one side. In the present species 

 the head is heavy and subglobose. The eyes are large, prominent 

 and coarsely granulated. The antennae are inserted distant from 

 each other under two protuberances of the anterior part of the fore- 

 head. The club is 4-jointed, the joints composing it, being flat at the 

 base, and, with the exception of the last, obliquely cut away at the 

 apex, the last itself being conic. The maxill. palpi have j oint 3 rather 

 elongated and of the form of an inverted cone, joint 4 middling, 

 acuminated. The thorax is of a rounded oval shape and rather 

 strongly narrowed towards the apex. The scutellum is obsolete. 

 The elytra have the usual rudimentary costse at the shoulders and 

 are separately rounded off at the apex. The legs are middling, 2 

 posterior coxae inserted close together, trochanters all simple, tibiae 

 slightly bent at the base, narrowed and subcylindric at the tip, the 



4 anterior ones hairy, tarsi with joints 2-3 subequal, the first a 

 little longer and the 4th shorter, the 2 anterior ones slightly con- 

 tracted. I include in this species some individuals which slightly 

 differ from the foregoing description, being more robust, covered 

 more densely and with longer hair, especially on the occiput and 

 thorax, with the latter rather obconico-ovate and the costse of the 

 elytra more distinct, and moreover occasionally of a' chestnut color. 



36. Seydmcenus pubescens. N. 



S. praecedente gracilior ; long. corp. j lin. Antenna art. 3 et 4, 



5 et 6 inter se subaequalibus, subcylindricis, 7° secundo paulo mi- 

 nore, for titer cylindrico, 8-10 subglobosis, cum 11° conico clavam 

 formantibus. Palpi maxill. art. 3° inverte conico, 4° minuto. 

 Mandibulae tenues, medio obtuse obsoleteque unidentatee, basi ab- 

 rupte dilatatae. Thorax conicus, latitudine haud longior, basi 4- 

 foveolatus. Elytra et pedes praecedentis, tibiis tamen apice ieviter 

 arcuatis. 



Less robust than the former and further distinguished from it by 

 the 7th antennal joint (the one preceding the club) which is of a 

 strongly cylindric shape, by the minuteness of the last joint of the 

 maxillary palpi, the obtuse and nearly obsolete tooth of the man- 



