Feroculus feroculus (Kelaart, 1850) . J. Ceylon Branch Asiat. Soc., 2(5):21 1.

TYPE LOCALITY: Sri Lanka, central mountains at 6,000 ft., Nuwara Eliya .

DISTRIBUTION: Primary swamps and forests in the central highlands of Sri Lanka.

SYNONYMS: macropus, newera, newera-ellia.

COMMENTS: A rare and little-known species; available information summarized by Phillips (1980).