38 ICHKBUMOSIDJE. 



transverse keel, and consequently no areae; by the metatarsus 

 being longer than all the other joints united, and by the more 

 slender petiole." 



9. Arthula brunneocornis, Cam. 



Arthula brunneocomis, Cameron * Manch. Mem. 1900, p. 112 ( ? ). 



cJ . Head black, with the deplanate and closely punctate face, 

 the basallv prominent and apically obliquely impressed clypeus 

 (except its base), the labrum and all the orbits, pale flavous ; 

 mandibles, except before their apices, black ; the vertex and the 

 longitudinally sulcate frons, closely punctate. Antemue as long 

 as tlie abdomen, stout and hardly attenuate apically, piceous 

 and darker above, with the scape bright flavous. Thorax black, 

 with a broad pronotal band, the propleura below, callosities at 

 the front and hind radices, a mark at the apex of the notauli, a 



Fig. 7. Arthula brunneocornis, Cam. 



transverse band at the base of the inesopleurae, a large mark on 

 either side of the closely punctate mesosternum and a large 

 triangular mark at the apex of metanotum, pale flavous ; meso- 

 notuni dull and, like all the pleura?, closely punctate, with the 

 notauli extending to its centre ; propleurae strongly and irregularly 

 strigose centrally ; metanotum strongly punctate and striolate, 

 basal ly finely and closely punctate before the transverse carina. 

 Scutellum somewhat strongly but not very closely punctate, with 

 a centrally constricted flavous mark on its apical half, and its 

 basal fovea glabrous; postscutellum, scutellar carina? and the 

 space on either side, flavous. Abdome/i dark ferruginous, with 

 the petiole centrally, and the base of all the segments, black. 

 Leys : anterior pairs pale fulvous, basally flavescent, with the coxae 



