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Show 1887.] PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA OF CEYLON. 89 and rather pointed at the apices, each elytron with nine or ten rows of distinct punctures. Posterior tibiae dilated at the apices, the latter furnished with a row of bristles and below with a long fulvous spine ; claws simple. A single specimen. HYPNOPHILA APICIPENNIS, sp. nov. Black ; base of the antennse, the head, thorax, and legs rufous ; elytra strongly punctate-striate, the apices fulvous. Length -^ line. Head impunctate; antennse with the last five joints transversely dilated, black, the others fulvous. Thorax nearly three times broader than long, transversely convex, rufous, shining, impunctate, the basal margin with a short longitudinal groove at each side. Elytra subglobose, very convex, strongly punctate-striate, their apices fulvous, this colour extending also partly to the sides. Claws simple. The single specimen obtained, like the following, is glued to a card, so that I cannot say anything about the underside. It is smaller than H. violaceipennis, but seems to possess all the characters of Hypnophila. HYPNOPHILA RUGICOLLIS, sp. nov. Black ; head and thorax very finely rugose and wrinkled ; elytra dark purplish, distinctly punctate-striate. Length -^ line. Head finely rugose ; antennse black, of the same structure as in the preceding species. Thorax more than twice as broad as long, the sides deflexed ; the surface entirely covered with fine longitudinal rugosities, giving it an opaque appearance; a small longitudinal indentation is placed on each side at the basal margin, and a lateral groove extends close to the lateral margin, the latter appearing somewhat thickened and shining. Elytra ovate, very convex and pointed at the apices, the punctures regular and moderately deep and placed in striae, the single punctures being very closely approached. Legs black, the posterior femora very strongly incrassate, their tibise straight and armed at the apex with a long and distinct spine; the first joint of the posterior tarsi nearly as long as the three following joints together ; claws simple. A single specimen. MANOBIA APICICORNIS, sp. nov. Piceous or black; head, thorax, and legs fulvous ; antennse black, the four lower and the last joint fulvous ; elytra black, their apices fulvous, strongly punctate-striate. Var. a. Entirely fulvous. Var. b. Obscure piceous; the tibiae fulvous. Length 1 line. . , , Head impunctate, the frontal tubercles strongly raised, of an elongate triangular shape, bounded behind by a deep transverse |