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Show 162 REV. H. S. GORH A M O N N E W COLEOPTERA. [Mar. 16, the shoulder, and the thorax having the base M™"" ™*J^ hind angles right angles, so that the insect is not so *f°™/J " ™ as in its allies* The^antennae are formed much as in S vallatus the second to eighth joints being short and bead-shaped but longer than wide, the club strong but laxly jointed, thef ^ j o i n t qnad-rate and much (fully twice) wider than the ninth The* thorax.u wider than long, narrowed to the front angles, but with its sides nearly straight in the basal two thirds ; its flattened margin has its internal edge deeply impressed in front, where the flat part is widest, and it appears raised at the base only, where the disk is widely sulcate; the disk is convex, minutely but distinctly covered with small points, but the puncturing is much obscured by coarse floccose pubescence. . , . . Only one specimen of this interesting species was obtained. PANOMOEA. 1. PANOMOXA CINGALENSIS. (Plate XVII. fig. 2.) Rufo-testacea; capite et thorace basi piceis; antennarum articulo basali externe, scutello, sutura elytrisque maculis sat magnis nigris ; antennis articulis decern. Long. 5 millim. Hab. Ceylon, Hadley (I^ewis). Antennas ten-jointed, the basal joint is stout, a little curved, the second is scarcely longer than broad, and the third is apparently longer than usual, and is possibly really composed of the third and fourth mints together, but I can see no suture; the fourth to the seventh very short, club lax, the eighth and ninth joints rather trigonal. Head pitchy, smooth ; eyes coarsely granulate (as in typical Panomoea). Thorax as in P. pardalina, but anterior angles rather more prominent, scarcely punctured but a little uneven at the sides, finely margined, except at the middle of the base. Elytra more cordate than in other species, and viewed sideways rising to a point so as to appear more gibbous than in its allies, finely but closely punctured, with five largish black spots-one humeral, two near the suture, one marginal (larger than the others), one subapical; this last in one example connected with the marginal one ; the underside and legs are deep ferruginous red. Five or six examples were obtained. ENDOCCELUS, n. g. Mr. Lewis has met with a very curious small beetle in Ceylon, which apparently comes very near Panomoea, which itself is synonymous with Cyclotoma of Mulsant, and of which a shor description will be sufficient to render its identification certain. I he antennas, however, appear to me to be ten-jointed, and the two basal joints to be stout, the third to the seventh to be very short, the three last forming an elongate lax club. The tarsi are four-jointed, almost linear, very similar to those ot Rhymbus. |