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Show 68 MR. M. JACOBY ON THE [Feb. 1, projected into a small tooth or tubercle when viewed from above. In the variety the elytra are blue, with a broad discoidal and a narrow lateral* longitudinal band, which in another specimen are just indicated, thus proving the identity with the type, with which they agree in every other respect: this variety seems to be closely allied to L. rufo-ornata, Clark, in which the elytra, however, are black and the underside fulvous. CRIOCERIS SEMIPUNCTATA, Fabr. Kitulgalle, 1700 feet. Two specimens, evidently females, were obtained by Mr. Lewis, which agree very nearly with the Malayan forms ; the antennae are very short and robust, and the terminal joints are transversely quadrate ; the punctuation of the elytra is only visible anteriorly, no traces of any punctures are seen below the middle ; below the shoulders, close to the lateral margin, a short and very deep row of punctures, interrupted in the middle, are seen-a character which I do not find mentioned by Lacordaire, with whose description the Ceylonese specimens agree in all other respects. DIAPROMORPHA QUADRIPUNCTATA, sp. nov. Pale fulvous, finely pubescent below ; the antennae black, the four basal joints fulvous ; thorax very minutely, elytra closely and distinctly punctured, each elytron with four black spots (2 2). Length 3 lines. Head impunctate, flattened between the eyes, and with an obsolete triangular depression; eyes slightly notched at their inner margin. Antennae short, the third joint shorter and much thinner than the second, the fifth and following joints transverse. Thorax three times as broad as long, the sides slightly rounded and narrowed in front, the posterior margin straight at the sides, broadly truncate at the middle; surface with an obsolete transverse groove at each side, very finely and rather distantly punctured. Scutellum impunctate, its apex slightly raised. Elytra subcylindrical, distinctly lobed at the sides near the base, very closely and distinctly punctured, with some obsolete longitudinal smooth lines ; each elytron with two black spots, placed transversely below the base and two others below the middle, in a line with the anterior spots, the outer one, however, being placed slightly higher; the first joint of the posterior tarsi distinctly longer than the second. There is only a single specimen, evidently a female, before me. CHLAMYS PALLIFRONS, sp. nov. Brownish black; basal joint of the antennse testaceous; lower part of the face flavous; thorax elevated behind, closely granulate-punctate, spotted with fulvous in front and at the base; elytra distinctly punctured, with an oblique ridge at the middle of the disk, a shorter one at the shoulder, and several tubercles at the sides and apices. Length 1 line. |
