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the base of the pronotum, and theu couverging to a poiut at the 

 end of the scutellum, a strong, raised, yellow line being in the 

 centre of the black stripe. 



Head. — Face ; central lobe yellow, hindwardly a little raised, the 

 apex pointed, depressed ; side lobes convex, much longer than the 

 central lobe, meeting together and enclosing it ; apex of each rounded, 

 leaving a small notch between them ; sides at first almost parallel, 

 then perceptibly constricted, afterwards widened out and slightly 

 sinuate, the margins closely black-punctured. In the middle of the 

 head is a black, punctured stripe, beginning in a point at the apex, 

 gradually widening almost as far as the base of the central lobe, and 

 theu continued with straight sides to the base of the head ; in the 

 middle of this stripe, dividing it into two, is first the central yellow 

 lobe, and then a line of the same width and colour continued from 

 its base to the base of the head. Antenme red, the base yellowish, 

 apex brown ; 1st and 2nd joints short, subequal ; 3rd nearly twice as 

 long as the 2nd ; 4th and 5th subequal, each a little longer than the 

 3rd, and much thicker. JSi/es black, rounded. Ocelli red. nos- 

 trum reaching to the 3rd pair of coxa? ; rostral channel at first wide, 

 oval, with the sides thick, then constricted and shallow, but suddenly 

 raised into thin plates, which end abruptly at the base of the head ; 

 viewed sideways across the constricted part, a portion of the sides 

 ajjpears to have been roundly cut out. 



Thorax. — Pronotum; anteriorly straight, as wide as the head 

 and eyes ; sides long, nearly straight, a little constricted in the 

 middle ; margins incrassated, yellowish, posteriorly obtusely dentate ; 

 hinder sides rounded, deflected ; posterior margin straight. Down 

 the centre of the disk, in continuation of the stripe on the head, is a 

 broad, black, punctiu-ed stripe, gradually wider to the posterior 

 margin, and hindwardly fainter in coloui", divided down the centre 

 by a smooth, raised, yellow line, and bounded on the sides by a 

 slighter yellow line ; within the lateral margin a narrower, black, 

 punctured stripe, lying posteriorly in a groove, on the outer side of 

 which, witliin the hinder angles, the disk is much raised ; the space 

 between the central and lateral black stripes is of the luteous ground 

 colour, with concolorous finer punctures and indications of lines. 

 Scutellum ; at the basal angles a very short black line ; in the centre a 

 broad black-punctured stripe, gradually decreasing in width and 

 colour to the apex, where it ends in a point ; in tlie centre of the 



