CLADOJfOTUS. 17 



first joint of the tarsi with three pulvilli of equal length. Abdo- 

 meii varied with brown. 



S . Length 9 mm. ; pronotum, o'5 mm. ; hind femur, 5 mm. 



2 . Len(jth 10 mm. ; pronotum, 6-5 mm. ; hind femur, 5*5 mm. 



Madras : Madura {Decohj). 



Types in the collections of Pantel and Bolivar, in Madrid. 



Genus CLADONOTUS. 



Cladonotus, Saussure, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (4) i, 1861, p. 478 ; 

 Bolivar, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxi, 1887, pp. 184, 192, 208 ; 

 Hancock, Spol. Zeyl. ii, 1904, pp. 107, 112 ; id., Gen. Ins., Orth. 

 Tetrig. 190(i, pp. 10, 11; Kirby, Cat. Orth. iii, 1910, p. 9. 



Type, Cladonotus Jiumhertianus, Sauss. 



Range. The Oriental Region ; New Guinea. 



Body moderately long and broad, set with spiniform tubercles. 

 Face slightly oblique ; antennae very slender, wider apart than the 

 distance from them to the eyes ; frontal scutellum concave, the 

 rami subcompressed, and slightly raised, simple or dentated ; 

 vertex nearly twice as broad as the eyes, subtruncated, Avith a 

 small tooth on each side. Pronotum very rugose, covering the 

 occiput, with a high compressed dentated process on the back, 

 directed forwai'ds; truncated and emarginate behind. Tegraina 

 and wings absent. Hind femora dentated and often sublamel- 

 lated ; hind tibias long and slender, with numerous small spines ; 

 first and third joints of hind tarsi of nearly equal length. 



Key to the Species. 



1 (2) Pronotal process curved forward . . humbertianus, Sauss., p. 17. 



2 (1) Pronotal pi'ocess straight. 



3 (4) Pronotal process expanded at 



extremity latiramus, Hanc, p. 19. 



4 (3) Pronotal process not widened at 



extremity turrifer, AValk., p. 18. 



6. Cladonotus humbertianus, Sauss. 



Cladonotus hmnbertianus, Saussure, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (4) i, 

 1861, p. 478: Bolivar, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxi, 1887, pp. 184, 

 192, 209 ; Hancock, Spol. Zevl. ii, 1904, pp. 107, 113 ; id., Gen. Ins., 

 Orth. Tetrig. 1906, pp. 10, 16 ; Kirby, Cat. Orth. iii, 1910, p. 9. 



Dark brown or blackish, eyes very prominent, wide apart, 

 vertex carinated above the frontal ocellus ; below, diverging 

 rami on the clypeus, just beyond which the slender anteunte are 

 inserted on each side ; labruui again \\'\t\\ one central carina. 

 Pronotum with a lower process, dentated above, projecting over 

 the vertex ; behind this is a large flattened process, curving 

 forward over the head and trifld at the extremity, with several 

 teeth on the converging upper carinoe ; lateral angles projecting 



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