1492 THAUMASTOPEUS WESTWOODI. 
slightly divergent; the front margin is straight, the anterior 
angles (when seen in front) sharply protruding. 
The elytra at the base broader than the base of the 
thorax, the sides nearly parallel, only slightly attenuating 
towards the end, the apices obliquely notched at the su- 
ture, the outer angle of the notch sub-angular, the sutural 
one not protruding; the upper surface of the elytra is 
finely coriaceous, not so finely however as the thorax, 
and covered with large shallow punctures which are more 
or less arranged in rows; on the sides of the apical half 
and on the apical portion (including the apical callus) 
transverse striae are present; the lateral margin of the 
anterior half of the elytra is accompanied by a very fine 
line; the sutural margin is in the declivous apical portion 
strongly raised. 
The pygidium broad and short, not projecting beyond 
the apex of the elytra, and covered with fine transverse 
striae, which on the obtuse transverse keel surround two 
centres. 
The sides of the prosternum are longitudinally strigose, 
those of the mesosternum transversely; the sides of the 
metasternum are sparsely covered with elongate shallow 
punetares, whereas the sides of the abdomen show irre- 
gularly placed short eurved striae; the median streak of 
the metasternum and abdomen bears a few very fine punc- 
tures. 
The mesosternal process is strongly protruding and obli- 
quely directed forwards and downwards; it is compressed 
(higher than broad), truncate at the apex where it is 
highest, the upper and under margins divaricating in 
curved lines; the lower angle of the truncation is broadly 
rounded, the upper angle sub-acute; the upper side of the 
process is finely strigose, whereas a deep furrow is present 
along the sides which, as well as the under side, are 
impunctate; the under side, however, shows a fine line 
along the middle which is continued to the hind margin 
of the metasternum. 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XV, 
