BOLODEEMA. 55 



to the PLATYUEINI, but its position there is precluded by lack of 

 primary characters, the position of the petiolar spiracles and 

 absence of the areolet. 



I have seen but a single species. 



20. Boloderma cadmus, sp. n. 



c? . A strongly nitidulous, black and white species. Head 

 a little transverse and nearly parallel-sided behind the not very 

 prominent and internally entire eyes ; occiput distinctly bordered 

 throughout and centrally strongly emarginate above ; vertex sub- 

 deplanate, shining arid distinctly, though sparsely, punctate ; 

 frons flat and subglabrous ; face deplanate, entirely glabrous, 

 with a few large and shallow punctures ; epistorna slightly promi- 

 nent and apically circumscribed by a semicircular impression, 

 rising from the deeply bifoveolate base of the scutelliforin and 

 apically subproduced clypeus, which is depressed and laterally 

 contracted before its rounded apex ; cheeks elongate, sulcate 

 throughout and apically aciculate, with the genal costa continuous ; 

 mandibles strong, subparallel-sided, coarsely punctate-striate, with 



the two apical teeth, of which 

 the lower is distinctly the 

 longer, very obtuse ; basal 

 maxillary palpal joint short, 

 and the remaining four both 

 elongate and subincrassate 

 apically. Head black, with 

 a frontal dot, the cheeks and 

 external orbits broadly, the 

 face entirely, and the clypeus, 

 excepting its lateral fovese, 

 pure white. Antennce black, 

 as long as the body, filiform 

 and not .very slender, with 

 their apices slightly attenu- 

 Fig. 12. Boloderma cadmus, Mori. ate ; scape deeply excised ; 



flagellum of about thirty-five 



joints, all cylindrical, with the first half as long again as the 

 second, and an eight-jointed white band well beyond its centre ; 

 scape white beneath. Thorax strongly nitidulous and black, with 

 the notauli, the disc of the mesonotuin and lines from the radices, 

 propleur obscurely, very large apical marks on both meso- and 

 metapleurse, white ; mesonotum closely and evenly punctate, with 

 the notauli free, deeply impressed and reaching the disc, but not 

 convergent ; mesopleurse finely punctate (more coarsely basally 

 below) just above a carina the base of which is tuberculiformly 

 produced, sulcus wanting ; metanotum entirely glabrous, with no 

 indication of carinae, discally deplanate and glittering, with the 

 petiolar area perpendicular, concave and centrally subtuberculate 

 above ; supracoxal carinae alone indicated ; spiracles linear and 



