830 K. I. POCOCK 



hook-like process. Anterior legs in ^ unmoditied. Process on 

 5'^ sternum, subspherical, upstanding. 



Length up to about 20 mm. 



Loc. Great Cocos Island Andamans (E. W. Gates). 



38. F^rionopeltis taurinus, sp. n. 



(Fig. 22-22a). 



Colour piceous, keels ochraceous; legs testaceous, antennae 

 fuscous with distal segments testaceous. 



9 . Resembling the preceding, but with keels much more de- 

 veloped and elevated. 



P* tergile slightly wider than the head, keels distinct and 

 slightly raised posteriorly, without distinct anterior margin and 

 posterior angle produced, anterior border convex, posterior 

 border nearly straight , furnished above with an anterior 

 and median indistinct row of tubercles and a posterior better 

 defined row. The resi of ihe lergiles furnished with an anterior 

 and a posterior row of setiferous tubercles, those of the posterior 

 I'ow being longer and sharper than those of the anterior. In 

 the anterior half of the body each row consists of four, but in 

 the posterior half the posterior row is composed of six. The 

 tubercles more prominent in the anterior than in the posterior 

 half of the body. The keels situated high on the sides of the 

 somites and directed obliquely upwards and backwards as in 

 Cenlrodesmus: the antero-lateral margin oblique and bidentate, 

 the pore being situated in a groove behind the posterior tooth; 

 the posterior angle much produced and spiniforra. Upper snrface 

 of tergites divided by a deep transverse groove, closely and finely 

 granular; sides also finely and closely granular. No infero -lateral 

 keels. Anal lergiie triangular , truncate and subbifid : sternile 

 bituberculate. Leys and antennae very long ; the antennae reaching 

 past the fifth tergite when stretched along the back. 



c/". Smaller and less robust, with longer antennae and longer, 

 more upstanding keels. A small, quadrate, distally narrowed 



