A. W. Rymer Roberts 319 



progressively more rugose, the first bearing only a few ])unctures and 

 rugae. Anterior and posterior margins of the prothorax and posterior 

 margins of the other two thoracic, as also the abdominal tergites 1-8, 

 with border of longitudinal striations as in Agrioles. Muscular impressions 

 of meso- and meta-thorax brown, somewhat raised, forming a slightly 

 obtuse, rounded, angle near the antero-lateral margin. The lateral branch 

 does not quite reach the middle of the segment and the transverse branch 

 extends only half the distance to the medio-dorsal suture. In the first 

 eight abdominal segments the transverse branch from either side meets 

 its fellow at the medio-dorsal line and the longitudinal branch extends 

 posteriorly to the striated border of the tergite. Legs rather short and of 

 the same general type as those of Agriotes, bearing a few long setae on 

 the inner side and a number of short brown spines arranged in rows on 

 the remainder. Claws rather long, brown, sickle-shaped. Coxae almost 

 globular, strongly chitinized on the inside but membranous on the outer 

 side of each and allowing free movement to the first two segments of the 

 leg within. There is a short oblique dark line in the chitin of the coxa 

 pleurally, from which spring three short stiff spines on the meta-thorax 

 and four on the meso-thorax, though the spines are absent from the 

 prothorax. Ahdo7ninal tergites 1-8 with a transverse row of 6 long setae 

 near the posterior margin on either side of the medio-dorsal line, and a 

 shorter seta above each spiracle. 



Pleurae chiefly membranous, but bearing an elongate sclerite of hard 

 yellow chitin ventral to the spiracle on each. A single long seta is borne 

 at the posterior end of this sclerite, corresponding to those of the tergite 

 and sternite. Abdominal sternites 1-8 almost smooth, but with a few 

 fine punctures, yellow and fairly strongly chitinized. Their shape is 

 nearly square but with each postero-lateral margin excavate in proximity 

 to a email, almost triangular sclerite of strong, yellow, chitin. This small 

 sclerite bears a long tapered seta near its posterior margin. A pair of long 

 setae are also situated on the posterior margin of the sternite, one near 

 each lateral angle, and a pair of short fine setae between them. There is 

 a short stiff seta near the anterior angle of the sternite on each side. 



The thoracic spiracles are situated a little more ventrally than those 

 of the abdominal segments, in the anterior of two isolated rounded 

 sclerites lying between the tergite and sternite on either side of the meso- 

 thorax. Those of the abdominal segments 1-8 are borne in the membrane 

 of the epipleura, midway between the tergite and the elongate pleural 

 sclerite. In shape they are elongate, with a median septum and are little 

 broader anteriorly than posteriorly. Their margins are brown and bear 



