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Hermogenes cristatus, sp. n. 



Female. Cylindrical, brown, rugose ; antennEe testaceous, spotted with brown at the 

 joints. Head with a very slight, quadrifid transverse ridge between the eyes ; a raised 

 foliaceous crest, much broken and divided, at tlie ends of the pro- and mesothorax ; two 

 strong spines at tlie end of the second segment of tlie abdomen (reckoning the median 

 segment, which is about one-third of the length of the metathorax, as the first), and two 

 long ear-like lobes at the end of the seventh. Antennte with the scape much flattened. 

 Front femora with a foliaceous exj^ansion of the lateral cariuoe beneath, and terminating 

 above in a sliort strong spine, surrounded by two or three smaller ones. The outer lower 

 carina is jiroduced into a vei-y large cultriform process, followed by a shorter spine. 

 Front femora much widened and compressed, with a very large rounded lobe, towards the 

 extremity above, which is directed forward, and deutated above and in front. Middle 

 femora flattened and foliaceous, with two small rounded projections at tlie base above, 

 a large one near the middle, directed forward, and dentated above and in front, and a 

 strong tooth at the extremity ; this is preceded by a yellowish band. Beneath is a row 

 of strong teeth, decreasing in size towai'ds the extremity. Middle tibite with two 

 foliaceous crests, each slightly depressed in the middle, towards eacli extremity. Hind 

 femora with a strong tooth at the extremity above, and a row of teeth, decreasing in 

 size, towards the extremity below ; about the middle is a yellow spot. Hind tibiae with 

 slight foliaceous expansions on the carinas at their base below and at their extremity 

 above. Tarsi without foliaceous expansions, the first joint hardly longer or broader than 

 the others. 



Bimeiisioiis. 



Long, corporis 110 millim. 



,, capitis 5 „ 



„ pronoti 6 „ 



„ iriesonoti 27 „ 



„ metauoti, cum segmeuto mediaiio .... 18 „ 



,, segraenti mediani ,, 



„ leinoriuu auticorum 19 ,, 



,, „ medianorum 15 ,, 



„ ,, posticoriiui 20 „ 



Hah. Baram District, North Borneo. 



Collected by Mr. C. Hose. 



Allied to I£. verrucosus, De Haan, from Sumatra. 



Hermogenes Hosei, sp. n. (Plate XL. figs. 1, 1 a.) 



Female. Cylindrical, dark brown, rugose and granulated ; prothorax with a depressed 

 cross, the hinder part rising into a slight median carina, wbich is continued, rather indis- 

 tinctly, along most of the thorax and abdomen. Fifth segment of abdomen with a transverse 

 foliaceous raised lobe at the extremity; sixtli with a short longitudinal raised foliaceous 

 lobe on each side of the median line near the base of the segment. Front femora with four 

 long foliaceous carime beneath, the two middle ones unarmed, the inner one forming an 



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irregular waved row of large rounded serrations, and the outer one with a strong cultri- 



