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SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
Borders of the elytra dull, tip of the 
abdomen reddish testaceous 
hsemorrhoidalis, 
Wdm., pi. f. 
16* 
(13) Disk of the pronotum with bristles 14 
Disk of the pronotum without bristles 16 
(1.4) Cheek and first joint of the feelers 
with dense pubescence, front with 
bristles behind the articulation of 
the feelers and near the hind margin 
of the eyes ... ... catena, F„tpl. f. 
20 
Cheek scarcely pubescent; first joint 
of the feelers (never densely hairy !) 
and front almost in all specimens 
naked 
(15) Episterna of the prothorax laterally 
naked, those of the metathorax only 
near the extreme borders with 
bristles 
The whole or almost the whole surface 
of the episterna of the prothorax 
(moderately) covered with bristles... 
(16) Mandibles of ordinary size : moderately 
stout and sharp 
Mandibles very elongated and very 
sharp (elytra shorter and—especially 
?—dilated in the middle) 
(17) Intercoxal process of the meta¬ 
sternum and interior part of the hind 
hips naked 
Intercoxal process of the metasternum 
and interior part of the hind hips 
pubescent 
15 
ceylonensis, m., 
pi. f. 18 
calligramma, 
Schm.4 pl.f. 17 
cardoni, Fit., pi. 
f. 21 
sumatrensis, H., 
pl.f. 22 
18 
limosa, Saund., 
pi. f. 23 
* I discovered two larvae of it in a hill of white ants at Anuradhapura (conf.. 
W. Horn, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr., 1899, p. 234). 
t Aber. cancellata, m, (non Dej.!), differs from the type by the narrower 
pattern of the elytra : the middle band more or less separated from the two 
lunules. 
f The tip of the shoulder lunule is sometimes separated from the middle 
spot, sometimes largely connected with it; surface of the body green or brownish. 
