BOLODEBMA. 



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to the Platyuhini, but its position there is precluded by lack of 

 primary characters, the position of the petiolar spiracles and 

 absence of the areolet. 



I have seen but a single species. 



20. Boloderma cadmus, sp. u. 



c? . A strongly nitidulous, black and white species. Head 

 a little transverse and nearly parallel-sided behind the not very 

 prominent and internally entire ej^es ; occiput distinctly bordered 

 throughout and centrally strongly emarginate above ; vertex sub- 

 deplanate, shining and distinctly, though sparsely, punctate ; 

 frons flat and subglabrous ; face deplanate, entirely glabrous, 

 with a few large and shallow punctures ; epistoma slightly promi- 

 nent and apically circumscribed by a semicircvdar impression, 

 rising from the deeply bifoveolate base of the scutelliform and 

 apically subproduced clypeus, which is depressed and laterally 

 contracted before its rounded apex ; cheeks elongate, sulcate 

 throughout and apically aciculate, with the genal costa continuous ; 

 mandibles strong, subparallel-sided, coarsely punctate-striate, with 



the two apical teeth, of which 

 the lower is distinctly the 

 longer, very obtuse ; basal 

 maxillary palpal joint short, 

 and the remaining four both 

 elongate and subincrassate 

 apically. Head black, with 

 a frontal dot, the cheeks and 

 external orbits bi'oadly, the 

 face entirely, and the clypeus, 

 excepting its lateral fovese, 

 pure white. Antenna; black, 

 as long as the body, filiform 

 and not very slender, with 

 their apices slightly attenu- 

 ate ; scape deeply excised ; 

 flagellum of about thirty-five 

 joints, all cylindrical, with the fii'st half as long again as the 

 second, and an eight-jointed white band well beyond its centre : 

 scape white beneath. Thorax strongly nitidulous and black, with 

 the notauli, the disc of the mesonotum and lines from the radices, 

 propleura) obscurely, very large apical marks on both meso- and 

 metapleiu'se, white ; mesonotum closely and evenl)^ punctate, witli 

 the notauli free, deeply impressed and reaching the disc, but not 

 convergent ; mesopleura) finely punctate (more coarsely basally 

 below) just above a carina the base of which is tuberculiformly 

 produced, sulcus wanting ; metanotum entirely glabrous, with no 

 indication of carina), discally deplanate and glittering, with the 

 petiolar area perpendicular, concave and centrally subtuberculate 

 above; supracoxal carina) alone indicated; spiracles linear and 



Fig. 12. — Boloderma cadmns, Mori. 



