so 



CEEAMBTCIDJE. 



strongly narrowed ; eyes of moderate size, finely facetted, rounded 

 and entire ; front small ; clypeus large, limited above by two 

 convergent sutural lines ; labrum large ; last joint of palpi slightly 

 triangular ; gula with distinct mentigerous process. Antenna? 

 inserted in small approximated tubercles, in a line with the lower 

 border of the eyes and at as great a distance from the eyes as from 

 one another ; much shorter than the body, with cylindrical joints, 

 the first barely extending past the hind border of the eye, the 

 third and fourth subequal, each shorter than the first or fifth, 

 fifth to tenth subequal. Prothorax slightly longer than its width 

 at the base, strongly constricted and transversely grooved near the 

 apex, laterally and acutely projecting at the apex ; marked with 

 a shallow transverse groove near the base. Scutellum rather 

 large, triangular. Elytra much broader than the prothorax, 

 widened a little behind the shoulders, then gradually and slightly 

 narrowed posteriorly ; each broadly and subsinuately truncate 

 at the apex, armed with a spine behind the ^shoulder at the 

 point where the width of the elytra is greatest. * Legs long, the 

 hind femora extending by nearly one-fourth of their length past 

 the apex of the elytra ; first joint of hind tarsus almost as long as 

 the second and third united ; third deeply cleft. Front coxa3 

 almost contiguous, the intercoxal process very narrow; their 

 acetabula widely open posteriorly. 



74. Rhondia pngnax, Dohrn. 



Leptura (Capnolymma ?) puguax, Dohrn, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxxix, 

 p. 459 (1878). 



Straw-yellow, glossy ; the antennae, tibiae, tarsi, the dorsal 

 borders of the femora, and the posthumeral'spines of the elytra 

 black. Head impressed with a fine median line along the vertex 

 and front, the sides finely and sparsely punctate, the vertex 

 with two slight tubercular elevations followed by a median de- 

 pression near where the short neck 

 begins. Antennae of female reach 

 to the middle of the elytra. Pro- 

 thorax smooth and glossy, with a 

 characteristic appearance owing to 

 the deep anterior constriction and 

 groove preceded by the raised and 

 laterally projecting apical border. 

 Elytra finely but not very densely 

 punctate all over, less nitid and a 

 little paler in colour than the pro- 

 thorax ; the spine near each shoulder 

 directed outwards and upwards. 

 Metasternum marked with a deep 

 median groove which ends in front 

 in a small pit just where the tri- 

 angular lobe which projects between 

 In the only example of this species 



Fig. 32. 

 Jihondia pugnax, Dohrn. 



X?. 



the middle coxae begins. 



