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longer and thicker than the pronotum, strongly reclinate 

 and very prominent above. Frontal ridge with the margins 

 closely approximate at the fastigium ; facial keels reaching 

 the clypeus. Pronotum yerj finely and closely punctured 

 in the prozona, and more distinctly in the metazonaj which 

 is a little shorter than the prozona ; median keel scarcely 

 perceptible on the prozona and more distinct, though still 

 very low, on the metazona. Elytra a little longer than the 

 abdomen ; mediastinal area with but very feeble basal dila- 

 tation and reaching to the apical fourth of the fore margin ; 

 scapular area fairly dilated^ extending a little beyond the 

 end of the mediastinal, with sparse transverse nerves ; 

 externo-median area gradually widening towards the apex, 

 but distinctly narrower than the scapular area; discoidal 

 area fairly broad, sparsely, though not very regularly trans- 

 versely, reticulated ; interulnar area a little narrower than 

 the discoidal, sparsely and still less regularly reticulated, 

 "without a regular false vein. 



General coloration greyish browai, with grey and whitish 

 design. Head brown above and whitish beneath. Pro- 

 notum brown above, with a very faint indication of a pale 

 cross-like design (as in Dociostaurus yenei, Ocsk.) ; lateral 

 lobes with a reniform ivory spot beneath and a little behind 

 their middle, with the fore angle white and the lower 

 margin whitish. Elytra with a row of rather large quad- 

 rangular brownish spots along the middle, with the base of 

 mediastinal area and the whole of the anal area brownish. 

 Wings hyaline, with the principal veins in the fore part 

 brownish. Sternum and abdomen bright yellow beneath ; 

 upperside of the abdomen bright red. Fore and middle 

 legs spotted and fasciated Avith grey. Hind femora bright 

 yellow beneath and on the inside ; the externo-median area 

 whitish, with a row of several small brown spots along the 

 lower margin; snperno-median area brownish, with a grey 

 spot in the middle, another smaller and less distinct grey 

 spot adjoining the pale base, and the third one still less 

 distinct, just before the pale preapical ring ; the median 

 and preapical spots are also prolonged into the superno- 

 iuterior area; knees black. Hind tibite pale greyish, with 

 black base and a brown streak in the basal third beneath ; 

 the spines brown. Hind tarsi bluish white. 



$ (paratype). Antennae extending well beyond the hind 

 margin of the pronotum, but not reaching the middle of the 

 abdomen. Head a little longer and distinctly thicker than 

 the pronotum, very prominent dorsally. Facial keels not 

 reaching the clypeus. Prozona of the pronotum with the 



