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Records of thi-: S.A. Museum 



POROCORIXA PARVIPUNCTATA sp. nov. 



i Head pale odiraccoiis, -wider llum loii-^'. almost strai<>'li1, in tV(jiit, scarcely 

 ))f()duc('(l ill froiil of eyes: posterior margin sinuate, inediaiily aii<inlar; crown not 

 coiispicnonsly convex, with a very indistinct interocular carina; a line of small 

 piiiicliires on each side of the median line of the head and another series jjordering 

 the inner margin of each eye and bent inwards near 1 he base of the head; face 

 with a punctate, shallow, obovate tle])ressioii reaehin<i' 1o just aliove inner anj^les 

 of the eyes; a small, narrow, interior impression, reaehinjz' to Ix'tween inner angles 

 of eyes; eyes directed moderately l)aekwards. inner margins i)arallel al)ove, 

 conver^ng on face. Pronotnm olivaceous-brown, in ])ar1s dilnted, clothed witii 

 short blaclv liairs, more than twice as l)road between humeral angles as medial 

 lengtii ; juinctures minute, confluent, and forming fine, transverse wrinkles; a 



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feeble median, longitndinal ridge; anterior margin convex, slightly incised 

 medianly ; jjosterior margin sinnately convex; lateral margins very oblique; 

 angles very acute. Henielytra dark olivaceous-grey, in parts darkened, finely 

 punctured and with black hairs; clavus testaceous basally and darker at angles; 

 cerium darkened anteriorly, at apex and below termination of the embolium, 

 which is pale livid with the outer margin black. Sternum pale ochraceous; 

 underside of abdomen dark testaceous, clothed with a fine, yellow pubescence; 

 connexivum yellow, in parts black; strigil black, very small, roundly sub-trian- 

 gular, with two broad rows of striae; legs testaceous; anterior tibiae more than 

 half as long as palae, which are falcate, evenly convex above, narrower at the base; 

 claw rather short; one short row of ten stridulatory pegs, situated on the apical 

 third of the tarsus; middle pegs longest and stoutest, posterior four couspicuously 

 shorter; intermediate tarsi more tlian half as long as tibiae, about as long as 

 claws; posterior tarsi longer than tibiae; swimming hairs brown. Length, 6 mm. 



