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red-brown, the funicle sparsely clothed with recumbent pubescence, the joints 

 clavate, the two basal ones equal, the remainder sHgiitly and progressively diminishing 

 in length, all of them being longer than broad, except 7, which is about as broad as 

 long ; the club subcompressed, markedly broader than the funicle, as long as the 

 three preceding joints together, the first joint of the club as long as the remainder. 

 Prothorax with the sides subparallel from the base to the middle, thence roundly 

 narrowed to the apex and without any apical constriction ; the dorsum flattened, 

 with the usual very large and deep reticulate punctures, diminishing in size and 

 depth anteriorly, the interspaces shiny, not setose, and with squamiferous punctures, 

 without any real carina, but with a median undulating impunctate line that nearly 

 reaches the base and apex ; the scaling on the disk rather thin and recumbent, the 

 scales on the sides larger, denser and slightly raised, and a sharply defined line on the 

 pleura between the dark dorsal and pale ventral scaling. Scutellum trapezoidal, 

 broadest behind, about as long as its apical width, markedly flattened and sparsely 

 punctate. Elytra unusually flattened, the shoulders prominent ; the posterior callus 

 distinct but obtuse ; the intervals plane, not elevated or granulate at the base, a 

 little broader than the large deep punctures, which are partly hidden by the dense 

 scaling ; when abraded the transverse septa between the punctures are seen to be 

 raised a little higher than the intervals between the rows ; the scales very dense, 

 suberect, and with the tips curved downwards , the scale-like setae so short in the 

 male as to be hardly distinguishable from the scaling, a little longer and obliquely 

 raised in the 9. Legs with blackish scaling, except on the basal half of the femora, 

 where it is light brown ; the upper apical angle of the hind tibiae prominent, formino- 

 a sharp right angle. Ventcy densely squamose at the sides, more thinly so in the 

 middle, with scattered raised sqiiamiform setae ; ventrites 3, 4 and 7 (nominally 1, 

 2 and 5) with numerous large deep punctures, the interspaces with fine scattered 

 punctures , ventrites 5 and 6 each with a single transverse row of larger shallow 

 punctures. 



Genitalia* of S (fig- ^) with the median lobe almost parallel-sided, with a very 



Fig. 5. Genitalia of Mecistoccrus fumosus, sp. n , ^ a, aedoeagu.s ; h, togmen. 



slight lateral sinuation near the apical third and the apex broadly rounded, only the 

 entire margin being heavily chitinised (probably immature) ; the uneverted sac 



M^^'ooo™^^ '^^^'^ are those suggested by Dr. D. Sharp, F.R.S. (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1918, 

 pp. 209-222. 



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