Tetriginae in the Oxford University Museum. 365 



7. Elytra oblong and black, anterior 



legs rufous nifipes, Bol. 



7.7. Elytra ovate ; length of male pro- 



notum 6 mm parvulus, Hanc. 



1 infuscata, Walk, (not 

 able to classify). 



C. convexus, sp. nov. (Plate XLIX, figs. 7 and 7a.) 



(See preceding table). Colour fusco-testaceous, hind femora of 

 female often testaceous, of male variegated ; vertex narrowed for- 

 ward, scarcely wider than one of the eyes, middle carinate, on each 

 side oblong fossulate, and bearing a transverse ruga behind ; frontal 

 carinulae roundly flexed backward each side of mid-carina, not 

 projecting beyond the eyes; frontal costa arcuate produced before 

 the eyes, viewed in front widest between the antennae ; antennae 

 inserted between the lower third of the eyes. Pronotum anteriorly 

 barely convex, posteriorly lengthily subulate extended beyond the 

 hind femoral apices ; dorsum coarsely granulose, bearing small 

 shining elongate tubercles, and bi-rugose, convex between the 

 shoulders but behind the shoulders little subdepressed ; subconcave 

 backward on the process ; median carina indistinctly undulate, 

 scarcely elevated, subgibbulose between the sulci forward ; lateral 

 prozonal carinae forward low, granulate and parallel ; humeral 

 angles widely obtuse and scarcely distinct ; posterior angles of 

 lateral lobes oblique, apex subtruncate. Elytra rather wide, elongate, 

 apices acutely angulate, externally lightly punctate impressed ; wings 

 fuscous or little testaceous, extended backward barely beyond the 

 pronotal apex. Anterior and middle femora elongate, margins entire 

 (more compressed in the male) ; posterior femora incrassate, extern- 

 ally rounded, granose, carinae above and below entire and sub- 

 granose ; first articles of posterior tarsi little longer than the third, 

 the third pulvilli longer than the first, the pulvilli flattened below 

 not at all spinose. 



Entire length, $ 13 mm. ; pronotum, 11 -8 mm ; posterior 

 femora, 6 mm. £ 12 mm. ; pronotum, 105 mm. ; posterior femora, 

 5*5 mm. 



Four examples, Nos. 2156, 2157, 2160, and 2161, in the 

 Oxford University Museum, from N.E. Rhodesia, Upper 

 Kalungwisi Valley, 4200 ft., September 1908, collected 

 and presented by S. A. Neave. 



Explanation of Plate XLIX. 



[See Explanation facing the Plate.] 



