. Coleoptera: Lamellicornia. Scarabaeidae. TIIAUMASTOPEUS. 197 (ihdomen are very smooth in the middle and very strongly and irregularly punctured at the sides. S. The upper and lower surfaces are much less strongly sculp- tured and the hind tarsi longer. The abdomen is not impressed beneath. Lewjth 26-29 mm.; hreadtli 12-14 mm. Ceylon : Colombo, Belihul Oya (/. Z. Kannegieter). Type in coll. O. E. Janson. Only a single male and three female examples of this species are known. It bears the closest resemblance to T. pullus, but can be readily distinguished by a careful comparison. It is broader
. Coleoptera: Lamellicornia. Scarabaeidae. TIIAUMASTOPEUS. 197 (ihdomen are very smooth in the middle and very strongly and irregularly punctured at the sides. S. The upper and lower surfaces are much less strongly sculp- tured and the hind tarsi longer. The abdomen is not impressed beneath. Lewjth 26-29 mm.; hreadtli 12-14 mm. Ceylon : Colombo, Belihul Oya (/. Z. Kannegieter). Type in coll. O. E. Janson. Only a single male and three female examples of this species are known. It bears the closest resemblance to T. pullus, but can be readily distinguished by a careful comparison. It is broader and much more strongly sculptured and the striation of the pygidium is so dense as to produce a sooty unreflecting surface. The lobe of the pronotum is rather less narrow and without a longitudinal impression at its extremity. A further distinction may be found in the different form of the genitalia of the male. 177. Thamnastopeus pugnator. Thaumastopaeus pugnator, Heller, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1899, p. 362. Lomaptera striata, Wallace (part.), Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (3) ir, 1868, p. 535. Bright metallic green above and below, and very smooth and shining. It is large, moderately elongate, depressed above and straight-sided. The ch/ijeus is very coarsely punctured, with the margins raised, and the vertex is smooth in the middle. The ^j>'0- notum is rather coriaceous and extremely finely punctured, except in the region of the front angles, where the punctures are very coarse. The sides are contracted in front, where they are consider- ably depressed, obtusely angulated at the middle, and produced out- wards at the hind angles, which are sharp. The basal lobe is minutely rounded at its apex. The eh/tra have a few very minute and inconspicuous punctures, which are a little more apparent at the sides, and the apical and posterior lateral margins are feebly rugose ; the outer edges are scarcely sinuated and the apices are excised near the angles, which are spinose. The j^yciidium
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