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Show 1887.] PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA OF CEYLON. Ill coloured head, legs, and the want of the sutural elytral band. Jac, differs in the black antennae and tarsi as well as other particulars. LUPERODES MULTIMACULATUS, sp. nov. Testaceous; antennse and the breast black; head with a black spot; thorax minutely punctured, with a black spot at each side; elytra ovate, finely punctured, the base and lateral margin anteriorly, a spot near the base, two others below the middle, one near the apex as well as the latter itself, black. Length 2 lines. Head impunctate, transversely grooved between the eyes, the latter large; the vertex with a large round black spot; labrum black ; antennse slender, the third joint one half longer than the second. Thorax transverse, rather more than twice as broad as long, the sides and the posterior margin rounded; the surface extremely minutely punctured, testaceous, the sides with an elongate black spot placed close to the lateral margin. Scutellum black. Elytra slightly widened at the middle, extremely finely punctured and wrinkled, the basal and lateral margins at the anterior half as well as the epipleurae black ; each elytron with a small black spot at the shoulder, a larger and more elongate one near the scutellum, two similar spots placed close to each other near the suture below the middle (one slightly above the other), and a fifth, narrow and elongate spot near the lateral margin and at a little distance from the apex, the latter also black at the extremity. Breast black ; abdomen and the legs fulvous; the metatarsus of the posterior tibiae as long as half their length. Anterior coxal cavities closed. Elytral epipleurse very narrow below the middle. A single specimen. LUPERODES RUFICOLLIS, sp. nov. Black; head and thorax rufous; elytra black, very minutely punctured. Length 1| line. Head impunctate, bright rufous; labrum and palpi piceous. Antennae black, the basal joint piceous, its base testaceous, the second and third joints short, nearly equal. Thorax transverse, three times as broad as long, the sides straight, the posterior margin rather rounded, the surface extremely finely punctured. Scutellum black. Elytra exceedingly finely punctured, black. Legs slender; the tibise mucronate ; the first joint of the posterior tarsi more than half the length of the tibiae. Anterior coxal cavities closed. LUPERODES ALBOPLAGIATUS, Motsch. Dikoya. PSEUDOCOPHORA BICOLOR, sp. nOV. Flavous ; thorax deeply transversely depressed; elytra black, shining, obsoletely semipunctate-striate. |