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Underside cliestnut-red, pubescent. Head longitudinally 

 ridged in tlie middle. 'Mesosternum plane in the middle, this 

 part with fine carinate borders. j\letasternum flat or impressed 

 in the middle ; just in front of each hind coxa there seems to 

 be a small tubercle, there is another behind, both are rather 

 indistinct. 



Antennce about as long as the head and thorax ; second 

 joint quite as large as the exposed part of the first ; fourth 

 just longer than broad, slightly shorter than the third or 

 fifth ; sixth and seventh hardly longer than broad ; eighth a 

 little shorter than the preceding one ; joints 3 to 8 are of 

 nearly equal thickness throughout ; ninth distinctly broader 

 than eighth, but only a little more than half the bulk of the 

 tenth ; eleventh largest, conical, somewhat acuminate. 



Maxillary palpi stout, two thirds the length of antennse, 

 first joint short, second gradually thickened, third short and 

 thick, fourth almost as long as second, broadest near the base, 

 gradually narrowed, with a short apical seta. Front coxce 

 cylindric, contiguous; the middle pair almost contiguous; the 

 posterior not very widely separated. The abdomen apparently 

 consists of six segments, but the suture between the fifth and 

 sixth is very fine ; the basal segment is nearly the length of 

 the other five, it is densely fringed at the base ; the hind thighs 

 conceal the pubescence, but when these are displaced an 

 indistinct suture can be seen between wdiat I term the basal 

 segment and the metasternum. 



The male has a broader head and more prominent eyes 

 than the female, so far as I can judge at present. 



Length I, breadth quite \ line. 



Hunua Kange. Five examples. 



Bryaxis sternalis, sp. n. 



Sanguineous^ legs and antennae paler red, tarsi and palpi 

 yellowish ; shining, with very few short, fine, pale hairs. 



Head broad, nearly flat between the antennee, broadly im- 

 pressed near the front, with two small interocular foveas. 

 TAora.^ widest just before the middle, where it is rounded; 

 near the base there is a transverse depression which does not 

 reach the middle. Elytra rather longer than broad, narrowed 

 towards the base ; their sutural striai well-marked, the intra- 

 humeral impressions more or less distinct. Hind body short, 

 much deflexed, more evidently pubescent than the elytra. 

 Legs moderately stout; front and middle tibiaj somewhat 

 dilated along the inside, the former with distinct yellow ciliaj 

 on the inner face. 



