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SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
pronotum posteriorly large, truncate at the extremity, extended 
as far as the abdomen, and provided with two spines ; the base 
presents two strong depressions between which the denticulate 
dorsal crest disappears, surface smooth, somewhat arcuate * 
median carina wanting or indistinct and strongly rugose, with two 
transverse rugulse irregular and indistinct in form; humeral 
angles very distinct and strongly denticulate, the posterior border 
slightly raised, lateral borders or infra-scapular area vertically 
flattened, broad, and strongly punctate. Anal plates compressed 
and triangular, acute at apex, and sloping below. Anterior legs 
a little dilated, both borders two or tridentate ; posterior legs 
enlarged strongly rugose the oblique tubercles becoming gradually 
spinose, knees surmounted by a large triangular acute process and 
preceded by a similar tooth, the external pagina furnished with 
two or three long spines besides other smaller ones, the inferior 
femoral border finely denticulate, spines of posterior tibiae large. 
Elytra and wings absent. 
Length of body <5, 8 mm.; pronot. 7 mm.; post. fern. 5 mm.; 
pronotal ramus 3-4 mm. 
Locality. Peradeniya and Trincomalee in Ceylon (De Saussure). 
Gladonotus humbertianus , De Saussure (1860, p.478). 
Gladonotus humbertianus, De Saussure, Bolivar (1887, p. 209, 
plate I., fig. 10). 
Gladonotus humbertianus , Sharp (1895, p. 301, fig. 1805 copied 
from Bolivar). 
The above description is adapted from De Saussure, who states 
that this species lives upon the sand in the meadows in the hot 
region of Ceylon, and he further adds that the spines, tubercles, 
apophyses, and even the ramose appendix of the pronotum, vary 
much in form and size ; the former being often absent in many 
parts. 
3 .—Gladonotus latiramus , sp. nov. 
Plate I., figs. 1-1#. 
Resembling the preceding species. Body small, stout, fuscous, 
strongly rugose spinose. Vertex rugose, equal to about twice the 
breadth of one of the eyes, scarcely narrowed toward the front, 
not advanced quite so far as the eyes, in front indistinctly trans¬ 
versely carinate, minutely subdenticulate, on either side outwards 
next to eye provided with a small tooth. Eyes viewed in profile 
globose, viewed in front a little triangularly laterally exserted. 
Face vertical, between the eyes widely depressed ; facial frontal 
costa above at the vertex little minutely subdenticulate, presenting 
between the upper third of the eyes a small tooth, another tooth 
