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antennae is much shorter than the preceding or follow- 

 ing ones, the second is longest, and nearly twice as long 

 as the third. The species is very variable in the degree 

 and amount of dark marking on the several parts of the 

 upper surface. 



Podisus nmcroTiatus, New sp. 

 Short, robust, broad-suboval, densely punctate above, 

 with red or chestnut-brown over most of the luteous 

 ground color, beneath yellowish-testaceous, remotely, 

 coarsely and deeply punctate, each humeral angle curved 

 forwards in an acute thorn. Head longer than wide, 

 narrowing towards tip, the lateral lobes sinuated, a little 

 curved at tip, with the margin reflexed, the tylus promi- 

 nent, scarcely longer than the lateral lobes, marked by a 

 callous, yellow line which continues to base of vertex, 

 remaining surface with longitudinal lines of punctures, 

 between which are irregular and waved yellow lines, 

 which are broken at base; antennge obscurely testaceous, 

 sometimes dusky on the last two joints, basal joint ver}'^ 

 short, not more than half as long as the head before the 

 eye, second one longest, third about two-thirds the length 

 of the fourth, about equal to the fifth ; rostrum yellowish- 

 testaceous, reaching to the posterior coxae, the apical 

 joint pale piceous. Pronotum subtriangular, across the 

 humeri a little wider than long, surface between the 

 patches of coarse, partly confluent punctures smooth and 

 callous, callosities smooth, bald, almost discoidal, sending 

 off a lateral tongue ; anterior margin defined by a slender 

 yellow line, followed behind by another curved line, the 

 lateral margins very wide, flat, callous, yellow, curvedly 

 diagonal, denticulated almost throughout, the inner border 

 defined by an incised line, the humeral thorns long, black 

 or dark brown, directed diagonally outward and curved, 

 punctate and ribbed ; postero-lateral margins broadly 

 curved, having a yellow line on the submargin; posterior 



