428 CLAUDE PULLER. 



Apical with convex-truncate apex and with two whorls of 

 bristles. 



Post-genee differentiated from the genae by a sharp carina ; 

 sloping down to the gula ; transversely and regularly rugose. 



Gula scoop-shaped ; free blade broad, with sides bent up 

 and parallel, distal margin curvate ; inserted stem much 

 constricted behind blade, and widening gradually into blade; 

 one third as long as blade. 



Thorax. — Median area of each shield bright yellow, 

 broadly and sharply bordered with smoky brown ; meso- 

 and metanotum with paired and very distinct dark brown 

 dots. 



Pronotum sellate ; narrower than the head ; partitioned 

 before half its length by an open transverse furrow which 

 debouches on either side into cup-like hollows ; quartered by 

 a faint median line; cephalic area arched, but with its 

 median field hardly raised above level of caudal field ; 

 cephalic margin arched, arch rising almost perpendicularly 

 from the lateral processes and bending in a flat curve to its 

 apex where there is a shallow and small notch ; caudal area 

 with the median field arched, the side-plates sloping gently 

 outwards; sides curvate, tapering slightly, margins not 

 upbent; lateral processes salient, spout-like (like gargoyles), 

 large, projecting outwai-ds and forwards as well as pointing 

 downwards, incised at base before and behind, much hollowed, 

 hollows shallowing into transverse furrow ; caudal margin 

 broadly incurvate, almost straight. 



Mesonotum with median field convex ; sides broadly 

 curvate and with edges a little bent up iu front ; caudal 

 margin faintly, bilobed, nearly straight; as broad as pro- 

 notum less the processes. 



Metanotum a little narrower than that of mesonotum ; 

 arched ; sides curvate, diverging sufficiently to form distinct 

 caudo-lateral angles with hind margin, edges as with meso- 

 notum ; caudal margin bilobed, median portion prolonged, 

 laterad of lobes very incurvate. 



Legs brown ; apex of tibia of I with 2 to 4 spurs, of II 



