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Head large and broad, rather sliort, distinctly tul)erculate, 

 moutli concolorous ; eyes rather large and prominent, antenute 

 rather short, deep black. 



Thorax rather long, longer and rather broader than the head, 

 distinctly tuberculate, wrdest before the base, sides slightly 

 i-omided and margined, liasal margin very mnch rounded and 

 margined -with the angles rather obtuse. 



ScKtelliiiii concealed by the thorax. 



Elytra very short, much shorter and not wider than the 

 thorax, distinctly tuberculate, sides nearly straight, deeply 

 notched within the posterior angles. 



Ahdomi-n broad and conic, rather longer than the anterior 

 parts of the body combined, all the segments black, with the 

 edge of the penultimate segment conspicuously white, apical 

 segment rather obtuse. 



Legs, moderate, pitchy-black, with all the tarsi yellow. 



Underpaits deep black. 



Differs from all its congeners in its purely conical form and 

 velvety black colour; from Al. gracilicornis it may be known by 

 its much broader ft)rm, and short robust anteunfe. 



Myllcena Kraatzii. 



L.c. H-l| lin. ^ 3 = S'oO mm. Elongate, fuscous black, 

 clothed with short fulvous pubescence, closely and rather finely 

 tubercidate throughout ; head moderate, rather short with the 

 labrum alone rufo-f uscous ; thorax rather large shining and very 

 convex, much rounded in front with two erect seta? near each 

 anterior angle, widest before the base, sides and basal margin 

 sliglitly rounded and margined, posterior angles rounded ; elytra 

 short, rather narrower and much shorter than the thorax, with 

 two erect set« near each shoulder, deeply notched within the 

 posterior angles and obliquely truncate towards the suture ; 

 abdomen longer than half the entire length of the body, very 

 obtusely attenuated, each segment furnished with a strong erect 

 seta near the hinder angles, apical segment rufous, penultimate 

 edped with white; antenna^ and pa]]>i ])iceous more or less pale ; 

 hinder legs piceous, anterior legs and all the tarsi testaceous. 



Differs from M. elongata in its shf>rter and broader form, 



