BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 487 



apex, tibije less so at base and apex; head sparsely clothed with 

 almost round scales, rostrum nude. Ciliation moderately elongate, 

 bright silvery, just traceable ^\•ith head in position. 



Broad, flat, tubercles small. Head very feebly punctate, the 

 rostrum with feeble scattered punctures; eyes moderately coarsely 

 granulate; ocular fovea almost obsolete; rostrum shining, rather 

 short, feebly widening to apex, almost straight; scape inserted 

 about two-fifths from apex, passing muzzle; 2nd joint of funicle 

 once and one-half the length of 1st and almost the length of three 

 following combined; club free, almost circular. Protlwrax with 

 the disc feebly convex, the sides precipitous, and basal two-thirds 

 parallel; apex produced, narrow, very feebly bifurcate, about one- 

 third the width of Wase; ocular lobss almost obsolete; constriction 

 absent ; without median carina, lait with an almost scaleless line 

 extending from base to apex; with traces of two close transverse 

 series of four tubercles, the basal smaller and with paler scales. 

 Eliftra closely applied to prothorax, not twice its length and 

 wider at the hase, widest a little behind base, about once and one 

 half as long as wide; three callosities on each side at base, the 

 broadest close to suture, 2nd close to shoulder, 3rd on shoulder 

 feebly projecting on to side of prothorax; with large regular 

 punctures giving the surface an obsoletely tuberculate appearance, 

 two feeble rounded tubercles on 2nd interstice, one at summit of 

 declivity (which is abrupt), the other a little larger and a short 

 distance below it ; apex with a flattened tubercle on each side, the 

 distance between their apices a little more than the width of apex of 

 prothorax. Basal segment of abdomen thrice the length of 2nd, a 

 curved transverse impression across its apical third causing that part 

 to appear to belong to metasternum, intercoxal process broad, a 

 feeble longitudinal impression in middle of base; 2nd trans v^ersely 

 convex, its sutures large and deep, not much larger than either 

 of the intermediates, three apical depressed below level of others, 

 intermediates a little longer than apical. Legs short, femora 

 thick, posterior feebly passing abdomen; tibije compressed, very 

 feebly curved; tarsi rather broad, 3rd joint distinctly bilobed, -ith 

 distinctly longer than 1st. Length 11, rostrum 2j; width .5^ mm. 



