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24. Phyracaces rugulinodis sp. nov. 



(Fig. 11.) 



Male. Length 5 mm. 



Head, including the eyes, broader than long, broadly convex and 

 rounded behind, cheeks very short, eyes and ocelh very large and 

 convex. Mandibles large, trianguhir, deflected, with concave ex- 

 ternal and very finely and indistinctly denticulate apical borders. 

 Occipital border strongly marginate, continued below into two gular 

 marginations which run forward to a level with the anterior orbits. 

 Clypeus very short, with straight anterior border; frontal area repre- 



FiGURE 11. Phyracaces rugulinodis sp. nov. Male, lateral view. 



sented by a deep pit; frontal carinse subparallel, straight, half as long 

 as the head. Antennae 13-jointed, scapes reaching to the posterior 

 orbit, cylindrical, not thickened at their tips; funiculus of uniform 

 diameter throughout, all the joints longer than broad, cylindrical. 

 Thorax narrower than the head through the eyes, pronotum swollen 

 in the middle and on the sides; mesonotum rather regularly hex- 

 agonal, feebly convex, without Mayrian furrows. Epinotum with 

 distinct base and declivity, the former feebly convex and sloping, 

 the latter nearly vertical and concave, strongly marginate above and 



