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APPE.VUIX. MEMBRACTD^:. 



Genus SARRITOR, nov. 



Type, S. retnsvs, Dist. 



Distribution. Jiurma. 



Pronotum apparently without a posterior pronotal process * ; 

 pronotum elongate, truncate before scutelluni, concave laterally, 

 the latei'al angles frontally produced, very robust but distinctly 

 recurved, the edges strongly carinate, the apices subacute, the 

 disk distinctly centrally depressed, viewed frontally the produced 

 angles are more oblique; scutelluin exposed, not quite so long- 

 as broad at base, its apex rounded and centrally distinctly 

 eoncavely excavate ; eyes exposed above at each concave lateral 

 margin of the pronotum ; face much shorter than front, the ocelli 

 almost as near to each other as to eyes ; tegmina with the apical 

 venation straight. 



Apart from the apparently peculiar absence of the posterior 

 pronotal process, on which too nnich certainty must not be under- 

 stood, the peculiarly concave lateral margins of the pronotum, 

 thus rendering the eyes visible from above, will render the genus 

 as readily distinct. 



3397. Sarritor retusus, sp. u. 



Pronotum dark ochraceous or pale testaceous ; face thickly 

 greyishly pilose ; legs ochraceous ; abdomen beneath dull greyish 

 VA'ith the segmental margins darker ; scutellum dark ochraceous 

 or pale testaceous, the base with two contiguous white, sliortly 



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Fig. 139. — Sarritor retusus. 



pilose spots; tegmina subhyaline, strongly wrinkled, reflecting 

 the dark abdomen beneath, the basal area pale ochraceous and 

 thickly punctate ; pronotum thickly, finely punctate, centrallv, 

 longitudinally, percurrently carinate, behind the eyes slightly 

 subacutely prominent ; other structural characters as in generic 

 diagnosis. 



Length 5-6; breadth lat. pronot. process. 3 millim. 



Hah. Lower Burma ; outside Farm Caves near Moulmein 

 (F. H. Gravely), base of Dawna Hills {N. Annandale). 



I have seen four specimens of this species. 



* I have seen four specimens received at various times in which no 

 mutilation can be detected. The Ethiopian genus ColoborrJiis Germ. (Stal) 

 (which I have not seen) is described as having the thorax " processu postico 

 destitutns." 



