| OCR Text |
Show 1887.] PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA OF CEYLON. 73 sent a distinct species ; but as they closely agree in all the other pointed out by that author, I have abstained from describing them as new. The type of Nephrella seems unfortunately to have been lost, as it is not contained in Mr. Baly's collection now in the British Museum. I may add, further, that the head and thorax in Mr. Lewis's specimens show a fine central raised ridge, of which Mr. Baly says nothing. CHRYSOLAMPRA PUNCTATISSIMA, sp. nov. ^Eneous; antennae and legs piceous; head and thorax extremely closely and finely punctured; elytra strongly transversely strigose, finely punctured near the suture only. Var. Dark purplish blue, subopaque. Length 3-4 lines. Head extremely finely and closely punctured, the anterior margin of the clypeus emarginate at the sides and middle ; labrum fulvous. Antennse slender, the terminal joints very slightly thickened, the two basal joints generally fulvous, the rest piceous. Thorax twice as broad as long, the sides rounded, tuberculate at the anterior angles ; surface rather convex, as closely and a little more distinctly punctured than the head, the interstices slightly rugose at the sides ; scutellum dark purplish, impunctate, as broad as long. Elytra sub-cylindrical, the entire disk covered with strongly raised transverse rugosities, which near the apices form single tubercles ; the space near the base and at the suture remotely and finely punctured, the latter accompanied near the apex by one or two longitudinal costae. Legs piceous or dark fulvous; the anterior femora dilated at the middle and with a more or less distinct tooth ; anterior thoracic episternum concave. Galle. Principally distinguished by the very close punctuation of the head and thorax. PAGRIA COSTATIPENNIS, sp. nov. (Plate X. fig. 2.) Subquadrate-ovate ; bronze-coloured; three or four basal joints of the antennse fulvous ; head rugose-punctate ; thorax longitudinally strigose and deeply punctured, subcylindrical, convex; elytra longitudinally costate, the interstices deeply punctured. Length 1|-1| line. Head coarsely rugose-punctate, deeply sulcate above the eyes; anterior margin of the epistome concave-emarginate; labrum and palpi fulvous, the latter slender. Antennae more than half the length of the body in the male, shorter in the female ; the third and fourth joints slender, of equal length and about one half longer than the second joint, the terminal joints obscure piceous. Thorax twice as broad as long, the disk strongly swollen, the sides deflexed anteriorly, the entire surface closely and strongly elevate, reticulate and strigose, the interstices forming deep punctures and foveas. Scutellum sub-pentagonal, its surface longitudinally depressed. Elytra subquadrate-ovate broader at the base than the thorax, with a distinct depression |
