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shorter than the following segment; episterna rather narrow but 

 traceable throughout. Abdome)i moderately large, sutures deep and 

 straight; Ist segment as long as the three following combined, inter- 

 coxal process narrow, third and fourth combined slightly longer 

 than fifth considerably longer than second. Legs moderately long; 

 posterior coxse touching elytra ; femora grooved (the front pair very 

 indistinctly so), edentate, hind pair passing elytra; tibia? feebly 

 compressed, almost straight, in addition to the terminal hook each 

 with a small subapical tooth; tarsi thin, first and fourth joints 

 equal in length, third not very wide and bilobed to near base ; claws 

 long. Elongate, subcylindrical, squamose, tiiljerculate, apterous. 

 Close to Methydrisis but the femora are edentate and the shape of 

 the mesosternal receptacle is very different. The species described 

 below in appearance resembles many of the Poropteri. 



422. STENOPOROPTERUS GANALIGULATUS n. sp. 



(^f Black, opaque; antennas (club almost black) and tarsi dull red. 

 Rather sparsely and irregularly clothed with brownish and sooty 

 scales, in places condensed into feeble fascicles; denser on legs 

 than elsewhere. 



Head convex, basal portion finely punctate and almost perfectly 

 naked but not shining; forehead strongly quadrisinuate, the two 

 median excavations deep and rather narrow, extending more than 

 halfway from ocular fovea to base, and divided by a feeble carina; 

 lateral excavations rather deep and margining the eyes; ocular fovea 

 irregular. Rostrum the length of prothorax; irregularly and some- 

 what coarsely punctate, punctures leaving three feeble elevations, 

 that are traceable from base almost to apex; nowhere shining. 

 Scape inserted slightly nearer base than apex of rostrum, and less 

 than half the length of funicle and club combined; first joint of 

 funicle slightly longer than second, none of the others transverse. 

 Prothorax slightly longer than wide, sides moderately rounded, 

 apex rather suddenly narrowed; median line deeply impressed, 

 continuous throughout, but widened anteriorly ; four moderate 

 sized tubercles across middle, each of the two median ones connec- 

 ted with the apex by a ridge that bounds the median impression, a 

 feeble elevation on each side of middle posteriorly; with large 

 irregular punctures becoming much smaller along middle and on 

 frontal ridges. Scutellum in the centre of a depression. Elytra not 

 much (but suddenly) wider than prothorax, and not thrice as long, 

 sides subparallel to near apex; with a number of rather feeble 

 tubercular elevations, the most distinct and longest of which is on 

 third interstice near base, some moderately distinct ones about 



