804 R. I. POCOCK 



Legs distally tliickly hairy so that the claw is concealed or 

 almost concealed. 



The prominence on the anterior half of the sternum of the 

 5"" very large, laminate, distally bifid. 



The copulalory feet very long, nearly in contact at their bases 

 where they project back beyond the border of the sternite, 

 diverging mesially, then converging again, increasing in thickness 

 from base to apex , the base consisting of two distinct rami , 

 the external of which forms a distinct loop; the distal extremity 

 davate, the apex being produced into a downwardly directed, 

 externally hollowed lamina. 



Length about 22 mm. ; width 2. 



Loc. Puepoli (900-1000 m ) : IJia-po (1000-1200 m.). Collected 

 by Sig. L. Fea. 



Genus Trogodesmus, nov. 



Resembles Strongylosoma in the majority of its characters, but 

 differs markedly in the unusual development of the two tubercles 

 upon the anal sternite. 



13. Trog'oclesm.u.s Ibicolor, sp. n. 



(Fig. 10-1 Oa) 



Colour. Head piceous; first tergite piceous in front, ochraceous 

 behind; rest of the somites with their anterior cylindrical portion 

 piceous laterally, ochraceous in the middle ; the posterior j)ortion 

 ochraceous in the middle and on the keels, the intermediate area 

 clouded with piceous; tail ochraceous; sternal surface flavous; 

 legs flavous with browner markings; antennae flavous with the 

 T^ segment and half the 6"' black. 



Head liglitly striolate above, hairy below, with frontal sulcus; 

 antennae slender elongate, segments 2-6 subequal. 



P* tergile scarcely keeled, its lateral portion with convex po- 

 stero-lateral border; keel of the 2'"^ strong, produced in front 



