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fcrcnt palpi. The sculpture of its prothorax is very peculiar, 

 and the only prothorax figured by RafTray at all resembling 

 it, is that of Ajjliarinodes squamosns," from Singapore; but it 

 is not much like it, and the head and abdomen are very 

 different. 



CoLLACEROTHORAx scuLPTicEPS, n.sp. (Plate xvii., figs. 2-4). 



Dark rcddish-castaneous, elytra (suture excepted), legs, and 

 palpi paler. Clothed with numerous rather long, blackish 

 hairs ; and, in places (notably on abdomen, and under-sur- 

 face), with shorter and pale pubescence. 



Head lightly transverse ; with a wide, deep, median groove, 

 somewhat irregular in front and open behind, the groove 

 bounded on each side by a ridge terminating posteriorly in an 

 acute tooth directed obliquely backwards ; between each ridge 

 and the side, a shallow groove, the hind end of which is 

 closed, and marked by a feeble tooth ; with numerous, but 

 partially concealed punctures. Antennae rather short and 

 stout, the three apical joints forming a rather wide club. 

 I'rothorax wider than head, rather suddenly dilated near 

 apex ; the dilated part, on each side, with a strong excavation, 

 which is narrowed in front, and irregular towards base, filled 

 with pubescence and hairs ; with a strong, median impression 

 on basal half ; with numerous but usually concealed punc- 

 tures. Elytra transverse. Sutural stria distinct, the dorsal 

 represented by a rather short basal groove ; with small, sparse, 

 and irregularly distributed punctures. Abdomen, at widest, 

 slightly wider than elytra, second segment with three equi- 

 distant carinse, of which the outer ones are smaller, but more 

 jH-ominent than the middle one, third with two carinee not 

 quite extending to apex ; under-surface gently flattened along 

 middle, the fifth segment semicircularly emarginate at apex 

 l.ci/s unarmed. Length, 2^, mm. 



* Rev. d'Knt. 1890, PI. ii., fig. 40. 



