GOMPnOMASTAX. 



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Group III. GOMPHOMASTACINI. 



Genus GOMPHOMASTAX. 



Gompohmasta.v, Bruiiner, Abh. Senckenb. Ges. xxiv, May 1898, 

 p. 232 ; Burr, Ann. Soc. Espaa. xxviii, 1899, pp. 89, 94, 107 ; id., 

 Gen. Ins., Orth. Eumast. 1903, p. 9; Jacobs & Bianchi, Prera. 

 Loz. Boss. Imp. 1902, pp. 164, 175, 211. 



Paver amis, Kraiiss, Ann. Mus. Zool. Petersb. iii, June 1898, p. 108. 



Type, Gomphomastax autennatus, Brunn. 



Range. N.W. India, Central Asia. 



Body slender. Frontal costa narrow bet^veen the antennto, 

 deeply sulcated, and produced to the labrura. Antennae half as 

 long as the head, with distinct joints, and more or less clavate. 

 Pronotum short, subimpressed, with a median carina, and trun- 

 cated behind. Tegmina and wings wanting. Anal segment 

 narrow in the male ; supra-anal lamina triangular, sulcated ; 

 subf^enital lamina large and rounded. In the female the upper 

 valves are crenulated, and the lower ones armed with a few teeth. 

 Legs slender; as long as the abdomen in the female; longer in 

 the male. 



Key to the Sj^ecles. 



Antennas nearly as long as the body, strongly 



thickened (mtennatus, Brunn. 



Antennre half as long as the body, slightly 



thickened constrictus, Briuin. 



105. Gomphomastax antennatus, Brunn. 



Gomphomasta.v ayitennatus, Brunuer, Abh. Senckenb. Ges. xxiv, 

 1898, p. 232, pi. xviii, hg. 34 ; Jacobs & Bianchi, Pram. Loz. 

 Ross! Imp. 1902, pp. 175, 212. 



Testaceous brown. Antenna) nearly as long as the body, 

 clavate at the tips. Pronotum slightly compressed, olive-brown, 

 banded with black on each side, and a black band interrupted' by 

 an oblique pale line on the first segment of the abdomen. 



Length 15 mm. ; pronotum, 2 mm. ; hind femur, 12 mm. . 



Kashmik. 



Type in the collection of Brunner von Wattenwyl. 



106. Gompiomastax constrictus, Brunn. 



Gomphomastax cojistrictus , Brunner, Abh. Senckenb. Ges. xxiv, 

 1898, p. 233. 



Antenn£8 scarcely half as long as the body, slightlv thickened 

 towards the tips. Pronotum rugose, with the deflexed lobes 

 black, and the interior margin pale. 



Length 11 mm. ; pronotum, 2 mm. : hind femur, 9 mm. 



Punjab. 



Type in the collection of Brunner von Wattenwyl. 



