200 EMBRIK STRAND, 
Very near E. desponsa in general form but the pronotum is 
conspicuously different. 
Elaphroptera steinbachii n. sp. 
@. Mandibles bidentate, not elbowed, the outer tooth long and 
acute, the inner tooth short and broadly truncate. Clypeus produced 
and slightly porrect, the breadth at the apex rather more than 
half as great as the length, the apical angles produced into short 
spines, a very minute tubercle in the middle just before the apical _ 
margin, a transverse depressed line suddenly broadened in the middle 
on the middle of the clypeus, smooth and shining at the apex, ob- 
scurely punctured at the base. Head broad and short, closely and 
finely punctured, the front almost vertical, with a short but rather 
broad loneitudinal sulcus dividing the broad interantennal promi- 
nence. Antennae longer than the thorax and median segment com- 
bined, the apical joints strongly arcuate. Pronotum much narrower 
than the head, very short and almost smooth, the anterior margin 
raised; mesonotum finely and closely, the mesopleurae more coarsely 
punctured; scutellum strongly convex, broadly rounded at the apex, 
shinine and very sparsely and finely punctured. Median segment as 
long as the mesonotum, longer than broad, very shallowly and finely 
punctured, with two short longitudinal sulei at the apex. Abdomen 
elongate, tapering at the base, rather sparsely punctured, a deep 
longitudinal sulcus from the base to beyond the middle of the first 
segment, the seventh dorsal seement narrowly truncate at the apex; 
the hypopygium narrow, rounded at the apex and only very slightly 
produced beyond the dorsal segment. 
Black; the pubescence on the head pale einereous, grey beneath; 
mandibles, except the apical tooth, clypeus except the base and the 
depressed line on the middle, a quadrate spot on each side above 
the base of the antennae, the margins of the eyes broadly inter- 
rupted on the summit, a short transverse line on each side on the 
posterior margin of the head, the margins of the pronotum narrowly 
interrupted in the middle, the base of the tegulae and a narrow 
curved line above them, a small spot near the posterior margin of 
the mesonotum, a large spot on the centre of the scutellum and a 
smaller one at each of the anterior angles, a transverse line on the 
postsceutellum narrowly divided from a spot on each side, a broad 
longitudinal band curved at the apex on each side of the median 
segment, the sides of the first dorsal segment of the abdomen and 
