792 R. I. pococK 



Genus Trichopeltis , Poe. (') 

 3. Trieliopeltis cloriae, sp. n. 



(Fig. 2). 



Colour a uniform pale brown throughout. 



9. Head granular above. Antennae short; gradually increasing 

 in thickness to the 6"' segment, which is the longest also, the 

 3'^ and 5*" about equal in length and longer than the 4"", the 

 T^ small and conical. 



l'* tergile not expanded anteriorly into a hood covering the 

 head, about twice as wide as long but considerably narrower 

 than the second tergite. Keels of the rest depressed, with their 

 extremities slightly curled downwards and backwards, projecting 

 at right angles to the axis of the body or, towards its posterior 

 end, becoming gradually directed more and more backwards, 

 somewhat widely separated, a little narrowed distally, with their 

 margins nearly straight, subparallel, or, towards the liinder end, 

 the anterior convex and the posterior concave, the anterior angle 

 convex the posterior acute and produced ; antero-lateral border 

 of the keels with 10 or 11 teeth, about 6 teeth along the pos- 

 terior margins, those along the posterior margin rather longer 

 than those along the anterior ; the whole of the upper surface, 

 including that of the keels covered with about 5 series of close 

 set tubercles and clothed with long hairs; lower surface of keels 

 not sulcate, granular. Caudal process triangular, broad at the 

 base, pointed distally. Anal sternite bitubercular. Sternal areas 

 deeply sulcate, narrow. 



Legs long and slender, femur and tarsus subequal, the rest of 

 the segments very short, the coxa shorter than trochanter and 

 patella than tibia. 



(/". With the keels less depressed than the 9 , and with the 

 legs of the 6*'" somite separated for the reception of the copu- 



(') III Max Weber's Zool. Ergebnisse einer Raise etc., HI, p. 374. 



