£02 Descriptions of new Ceylon Coleoptera. [no. 2, new series, 



A handsome species of more or less deep chestnut color with 

 Ughter legs and antennae. The head is large, heavy and from the 

 e yes 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. 



B. Species without a neck. 

 42. Scydmcenus ovatus N. 



S. ovatus, convexus, brunneus ; long. corp. J 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 acuminato. Thorax 

 amplus semiorbicularis, 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 pearshsp- 

 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 foveae 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. 



