4 E. Bergroth: 



POECILOMETIS ELLIPTICUS, 11. Sp. 



Elliptical, above ocliraceous, rather thickly but not regularly 

 punctured with dark fuscous or blackish, head with the lateral 

 margins from eyes to apex of antenniferous tubercles and four per- 

 current vittae black, the outer vitta on each side broad, paler on 

 the juga, and on the vertex longitudinally divided by an ochraceous 

 line near its inner margin immediately inside tlie ocellus, the- 

 inner vitta on each side narrow, juga entirely punctate, but punc- 

 turation on vertex arranged in three rows on each side, the 

 ochraceous parts of the head, the pronotal lateral margins (nar- 

 rowly), a callus at the basal angles of the scutellum, somewhat less 

 than the apical half of its postfrenal part, and the outer margin 

 of the connexivum impunctate, membrane fuscous-black with 

 whitish veins; teneath luteous, a sublateral vitta to anterior half 

 of propleurae, two round spots at base of front acetabula, one round 

 spot at base of middle acetabula, spiracles, and a ring surround- 

 ing them black, head finely and sparingly punctured with brown, 

 pleurae punctate with fuscous, blackly and more coarsely so on the 

 metapleural evaporative area, venter coarsely but very remotely 

 punctate with black, the punctures becoming fuscous in the centra 

 of the disk and toward the lateral margins; rostrum and legs 

 testaceous, last joint of the former piceous. femora and tibiae 

 spotted with fuscous, last tarsal joint fuscous. Head as broad as 

 long and as long as pronotum in the middle, rostrum reaching 

 middle of second ventral segment, its second joint subequal in 

 length to the last two joints combined; (antennae wanting). Pro- 

 notum with the lateral margins obtusangularly sinuate before middle, 

 their apical third bluntly and obscurely crenulated, the humeral 

 angles a little prominent, almost right-angled. Scutellum as long 

 as head and pronotum together, the postfrenal part almost one- 

 half longer than broad, narrowing from its base, rather narrowly 

 rounded at apex. Hemelytra passing apex of abdomen by a little 

 less than half the length of the membrane, apical margin of corium 

 straight. Abdomen l^ehind* the middle slightly broader than the 

 closed hemelytra, the apical angles of the segments a little promi- 

 nent, right-angled, ventral furrow reaching apex of fifth segment, 

 broad and shallow, almost obliterated in the fifth segment, sixth' 

 male ventral segment in the middle somewhat shorter than the two- 

 preceding segments together, male genital segment very deeply 

 sinuated, the bottom of the sinuosity arcuate, filled up with a pale- 

 membrane. Length (excl. membrane), <? 14 mm. 



