350 Lieut.-Coloncl C. T. Bingham o« 



median segment coarsely transversely strigate. Head trans- 

 verse, very mueh broader than long, almost ilat in front, tho 

 vertex above narrowed sharply, barely arched, the ocelli small 

 and inconspicuous ; mandibles short, very convex, obtusely 

 bidentate ; clypeus transverse, narrow, the anterior margin 

 entire ; antennaj moderately thick, densely pubescent, planted 

 in deej) hollows low down on the face immediately above the 

 posterior margin of the clypeus ; eyes long, narrow, reaching 

 to the base of the mandibles, their inner margins parallel. 

 Thorax elongate, strongly compressed, very sliglitly convex 

 above, almost flat; pronotura extraordinarily long, narrowed 

 anteriorly, the sides of the prothorax with a deep triangular 

 depression, the apex of which is directed forwards, the lateral 

 margins of the pronotum overhanging the depression ; ante- 

 rior and posterior margins of the pronotum transverse, not 

 arched ; mesonotum very short, compressed towards the apex ; 

 scutellum and postscutellum strongly compressed, together 

 longer than the mesonotum, median segment long, rounded 

 above and on the sides, and with a gradual rounded slope to 

 apex, the punctures on the basal portion coarser than on the 

 rest of the thorax ; legs short, tiie tibiai of the intermediate 

 and posterior legs strongly spined ; the coxje and feuiora of 

 the anterior and the coxk only of the intermediate and poste- 

 rior legs extraordinarily thiek and massive ; claws short, 

 deeply bidentate at apex. Wings long and narrow, fuscous, 

 with a purple iridescence, paling somewhat on the posterior 

 wings: anterior wings with an eh^ngate marginal cell, pointed 

 at base and apex ; three cubital cells, the first nearly as long 

 as the second and third united, the second and third subequal; 

 the second cubital cell receives the first recurrent nervure at 

 its apical third, the third cubital cell receives the second re- 

 current nervure at its middle. Abdomen fusiform, narrow, 

 slightly pubescent underneath and at apex ; pygidiuni 

 convex. 



Length 14; exp. 28 millim. 

 JJah. Barberton [Itendall). 



This remarkable insect resembles the species of the 

 American genus Chirodamun, llalliday, in its flat head an<l 

 immensely thick anterior femora. It will probably form the 

 type of a new genus, but as I have seen only one specimen, 

 1 have with some doubt recorded it under the genus Pomj)ilus 

 for the present. In form and general appearance it recalls 

 species of the Ferreola group. 



