f/enera and species of the group of Psf/llidce. 469 



brevium, nitidorum, adpressorum ordine subpectinato, 

 lateral!, apice villis pauculis, longis, tenuissimis, erectis, 

 instructa. 



Fuscous, with a reddish tinge. Head : crown hori- 

 zontal, sordid yellow, clothed with very fine, long hairs ; 

 length down the centre not so great as half the width 

 between the eyes ; posterior and lateral margins higher 

 than the inner portion of the disc ; posterior margin 

 angulate ; anterior margin with three angular incisions, 

 the central one largest ; side ones over the base of the 

 antenna, the exterior angles formed by their junction 

 with the apex of the lateral margins produced into a 

 small callus in front of the eye, and best visible from the 

 side ; disc depressed in the centre, on each side bounded 

 by a fuscous longitudinal channel terminating in the 

 apex of the side incisions. Face lobes pale yellow, short, 

 rounded at the apex, not visible from above, clothed with 

 long, fine hairs. Antennae j^ellow, long, filiform ; 1st 

 and 2nd joints stout ; 1st almost cylindrical, more than 

 twice the length of the 2nd ; 3rd a little longer than the 

 4th ; 4th and 5th equal ; 6th as long as the 3rd ; apices 

 of the 3 — 8 black ; 9 and 10 minute, black. Eyes 

 moderate, smoky grey, placed on the sides of the head ; 

 posteriorly resting against a triangular or cuneate-shaped 

 plate ; viewed from above spherical-triangular, from in 

 front almost hemispherical, from the side broad oval. 

 Ocelli 3 ; frontal one scarcely visible from above. Thorax : 

 pronotum sordid yellow, narrow, slightly deflected to- 

 wards the head with a faint transverse channel termi- 

 nating on each side in a fuscous fovea within the lateral 

 margins, the latter about in a line with the anterior 

 margin of the eyes ; anterior margin slightly emarginate 

 on each side the narrowly rounded centre ; posterior 

 margin concave ; mesonotum fuscous, with a reddish 

 tinge, sparingly clothed with fine, longish hairs ; flatfish 

 convex longitudinally ; wider than the head and eyes 

 together across the insertion of the elytra ; dorsulum 

 with a pale yellow, central, longitudinal line, and a short, 

 somewhat elongate, oval patch on each side adjoining the 

 same ; central portion with a pale yellow central longi- 

 tudinal line, and another on each side somewhat remote ; 

 scutellar portion pale yellow. Elytra clear, transparent, 

 elongate ; apex acute ; 2| times greater than the breadth ; 

 greatest breadth beyond the middle ; upper portion, by a 

 line drawn from the base through the apex, twice as 



