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eyes ; eyes small, brown ; ocelli on a line with superior edge of eyes, 

 to which they approach nearer than to each other. Prothorax in front 

 convex, armed with a long, slender, nearly upright compressed horn, 

 leaning slightly forward, seen from side, slightly sinuous and armed near 

 middle of posterior edge with a small tooth ; seen from front, thinly com- 

 pressed, and at apex bidentate, the small teeth divaricate ; behind anterior 

 horn near middle of posterior process is a medium sized, compressed, 

 rounded lobe, which, when seen from side, resembles the helmet of a huzzar, 

 the top of which has a sharp, slender, needle-like spine pointing upward ; 

 behind the base of this lobe the posterior process extends backward in a 

 low, small, triangular process, placed vertically, with a slender spine 

 extending posteriorly from the base. Lateral angles very prominent ; 

 front margin arched to receive the head, the sides of prothorax extending 

 downward in ear-shaped lobules behind the eyes. Elytra ferruginous, with 

 a large black spot across the middle. All the tibiae very widely dilated 

 and thin. 



Length, 6 mm ; to tip of tegmina, 7 mm.; breadth, 3*4 mm.; altitude, 

 6 mm. 



Described from one example, the sex of which could not be deter- 

 mined without mutilating it. Type in National Museum. 



This is nearest to rigidus, Stal. It belongs to Stal's subgenus Lobo- 



cladisca, which with its related subgenera are characterized as follows : — 



[phorus, Fairm. 



Posterior prothoracic process unarmed at the middle Subg. Sphongo- 



Posterior prothoracic process armed at or near middle with a process. 



Anterior horn undate, lengthily curved backward, posterior or 



inferior edge unarmed Cladonota, Stal. 



Anterior horn substraight, not curving behind lobe of posterior 

 process, posterior or inferior edge armed with a tooth or lobe 



Lobocladisca, Stal- 



5. Sphongophorus (Cladonota) albofasciata, n. sp. 



£ . Blackish-brown, coarsely and roughly punctured, tuberculate- 

 Head longer than wide, inferior edge 3-lobed ; ocelli on a line with superior 

 edge of eyes, red, nearer to eyes than to each other, and near base of 

 prothorax. Prothorax highly convex, armed anteriorly with a horn which 

 at first extends upwards, strong and stout ; from posterior superior angle 

 it extends, slender and thread-like, posteriorly upward and backward for 

 another third, then it suddenly enlarges in a nearly quadrangular, com- 



