BY H. J. CARTER 



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the elytra which characterise Pascoe's species. I would take this 

 occasion to add that the figure given in the Journal of Entomo- 

 logy for 1866 (PL xix., fig.4) is misleading, in that, (l)it gives an 

 inadequate picture of the lobate bind angles of prothorax, (2) it 

 greatly exaggerates the obovate elytra. In a series taken by 

 myself, specimens of which I have compared with the type, none 

 are enlarged posteriorly to the same extent as in the figure. Two 

 specimens in my collection measured as follows : (J.19 x 5J mm.; 

 9,20 X 6|mm.; whereas the measurements of the figure given, if 

 reduced to the same standard of length as my female specimen, 

 would be 20 x 7^ mm. 



Cardiothokax carinatus, n.sp. (Text-fig. 7). 



Elongate, black, prothorax opaque, elytra nitid, anten?e, palpi, 

 and taisi reddish. 



Head with labrum emarginate, slightly concave in front and 



fringed with a few golden hairs, epistoma with front edge trilinear 



{i.e., truncate in front, angulately rounded towards 



7^ the sides); frontal impression rather square; an- 



^ ^^' tennse thick and, with the palpi, clothed with short 



i» } '1 golden pile. Prothorax 5 x 7 mm., the length being 



behind the middle, the anterior angles strongly 

 produced but rounded and reflexed at the tip, wider 

 at apex than at base (5mm. and 3 mm. respectively), 

 the latter strongly bisinuate; sides widely and para- 

 bolically rounded, with edges thick, shining, not 

 reflexed and coarsely crenate throughout except 

 I near hind angles; posterior angular process widely 

 truncate, directed obliquely outwards; foliaceous 

 margins wide, separated from the disc throughout 

 by a deep curved sulcus, much wider in front than 

 behind; median line well defined, widely channelled at the base; 

 at each side of this is an irregular elongate depression, curved 

 and nearly meeting behind, the insulated central part of disc 

 raised, rugose and terminated at the apical border by two raised 



Fig. 7. 



