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latter elongate; club elongate, the joints with oblique sutures. 

 Prothorax transverse, base bisinuate, sides rounded, constriction 

 feeble, ocular lobes rounded but not obtuse. Scutellum distinct. 

 Elytra wider than prothorax and more than twice as long. 

 Pectoral canal deep and narrow, terminated between intermediate 

 coxse. Jlesosiernal receptacle raised in front, U-shaped; open. 

 Metasternum slightly shorter than the following segment ; 

 episterna of moderate width. Abdomen with straight sutures, 

 1st segment almost as long as 2nd and 3rd combined, 3rd and 4th 

 combined slightly longer than 2nd or 5th. Legs long; femora 

 dentate, not grooved, posterior passing elytra; tibiae compressed 

 and thin, almost straight; tarsi almost the length of tibise, 1st 

 and 4th joints elongate. Elliptic, moderately convex, squamose, 

 tuberculate, winged. 



Allied rather closely to Pezichus, but may be at once distin- 

 guished by the decidedly open mesosternal receptacle. Of the 

 species described below, I have only a female specimen under 

 examination. 



Neomystocis squamiventris, n.sp. 



9. Black, antennae dull red. Rather densely clothed with 

 small muddy-fawn coloured scales feebly tinged in places (apex and 

 lower flanks of prothorax and 2nd abdominal segment) with 

 yellowish-green, a small spot of sooty scales on each side of middle 

 of prothorax, a moderately large round patch on 1st abdominal 

 segment and a few loose scales on elytral tuberosities. Rostrum, 

 except at sides of base, scutellum and prothoracic carina bare and 

 shining. Pectoral canal rather densely clothed throughout. 



Head with small, dense, concealed punctures; feebly depressed 

 between eyes. Rostrum rather strongly curved, considerably 

 longer than prothorax, shining and lightly punctate, punctures 

 denser and larger (but still small) at base than elsewhere. Scape 

 inserted two-fifths from apex of rostrum and the length of the 

 five following joints; funicle with the 1st and 2nd joints equal 

 and each the length of 3rd and 4th combined, each of these 

 the length of 5th and 6th combined, 5th sHghtly longer than 6th 

 or 7th, these with pubescence as on club. Prothorax rather 



