482 ^Ir. E. Bcrgroth on 



ami third togctlicr, fifth as long as fourth ; rostrum tiot 

 quite reaching posterior end of nietasternuin, the hist three 

 joints su\)e(jMal in hMigth. Pronotuni one-half broader tlian 

 long, within the slightly rounded and bluntly subelevated 

 antero-lateral margins with a distinct, rather broad, sub- 

 angular or a little curved longitudinal impression, the 

 anterior half of which is almost parallel to the margins and 

 extended from the apical angles to near the middle of the 

 margins, whilst the posterior half is j)arailel to the longi- 

 tudinal axis of the body; sparsely punctured, lateral borders 

 and cicatrical areas very remotely so, a longitudinal anteriorly 

 slightly raised, posteriorly evanescent median line im- 

 punctate; apical margin moderately sinuate, obliquely 

 truncate behind the eyes, lateral angles rounded, very 

 slightly prominent, postero-lateral margins a little sinuate. 

 Scutellum reaching apex of abdomen, slightly widening fioni 

 the base to a little beyond it, then subparallel as far as to 

 the middle of the fourth connexival segment, then arcuately 

 narrowing to the broadly and slightly rounded apex, sparsely 

 punctured, somewhat more thickly and finely so in the apical 

 fourth ; a transverse posteriorly rounded basal area not quite 

 reaching the lateral margins very remotely punctured anti in 

 the middle impunctate, a slightly raised imj)unctate median 

 line running from the posterior margin of the basal area 

 backwards, but evanescent before apex. Pectus sparingly 

 and very irregularly punctate, anterior flaps of prosternum 

 ghaped as in the other species of the subgenus Paracoleotichus, 

 strongly punctured at their base, almost impunctate toward 

 their apical margin, Hemelytra slightly passing' apex of 

 Bcutellum and abdomen ; corium not quite reaching apex 

 of fourth connexival segment ; exocoiium remotely and 

 extremely finely punctulate, mesocorium and especially endo- 

 corium much more strongly (though sparingly) punctured, 

 suture between exocorium and mesocorium three times longer 

 than that between mesocorium and endocorium. Abdomen 

 beneath rather irregularly strigose, but scarcely punctured, 

 the middle of the disk and the lateral borders smooth, the 

 longitudinal median groove very distinct from base of venter 

 to apex of fifth segment, narrower and less distinct in basal 

 third of sixth segment, the apical angles of the segments a 

 little prominent, those of the sixth segment more acute and 

 tooth-like ; sixth female ventral segment in the middle a 

 little longer than the two preceding segments together, and 

 twice longer than its lateral margin (including the apical 

 tooth), its apical margin broadly bisinuate, the median apical 

 part of the segment and the female genital segment with a 



