30G Dr. J. L. Hancock's Fiirtkcr Studies of 



Genus Cladonotella, nov, 



(Described in the diagnostic table.) 



1. C. hccearii, Bolivar, Ann. Mus. Civ. Nat. Genova, ser. 

 2a, xix (xxxix), p. (i(), 1898 = Cladonotus hccearii. 



One female example referable to this species, collected 

 by Wallace in New Guinea; W. W. Saunders' collection, 

 presented by Mrs. F. W. Hope to the University Museum, 

 Oxford. 



Genus Tettilobus, nov. 

 (See diagnostic table.) 



Resembling Cladonotus, Saussiire. Body depressed; vertex on 

 eacli side next to the eyes acuminate produced, spiniform, the 

 vertical spines often elevated above tlie eyes ; facial scutelhim 

 having tlie rami little separated, subparallel and not concave. 

 Pronotum anteriorly truncate, tiicarinate, little compressed ; median 

 carina cristulate-sinuate ; dorsum profoundly impressed between the 

 shoulders, process behind often angularly excised or narrowly 

 acuminate, often reaching to the apex of the posterior femora ; 

 lateral lobes of pronotum distinctly laminate expanded, either 

 obliquely truncate and minutely serrate or erose spiniform. Elytra 

 and wings wanting. Anterior and middle femoral margins sti'ongly 

 lobato-spinose, the tibi«3 having the superior margins bidentate ; 

 posterior femora strongly lobato-spinose, the superior external area 

 plurigibbose, the carina* often bearing produced tubercles or spines ; 

 posterior tibial margins armed with spines ; first articles of tlie 

 posterior tarsi subequal in length, the first and second pulvilli 

 minute or subobsolete. 



The type is T. sjnni/rons, described herewith. The 

 species Cladonotus intcrniptus, Bolivar, also belongs to this 

 new genus. 



1. T. spinifrons, sp. nov. (Plate XXII, fig. 4.) 



Allied to Cladonotus inierruptiis, Bolivar. Dark ferruginous, 

 little tomentose underneath ; vertex nearly twice the width of one 

 of the small globose eyes, bearing a small acute produced spine on 

 each side next to the eyes, projecting much above the eyes ; facial 

 carina above depressed, scutellum in profile having the rami strongly 

 angularly protuberant slightly above the point of insertion of the 

 antenna; ; posterior ocelli placed between the inferior part of the 



