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R. I. POCOCK 



Zep]xx*ouia^ earinatap sp. n. 



Colour dull ochraceous or brunneous ; antennae legs and 

 region of the labrum much paler. 



Head shining, flat, deeply and closely punctured throughout, 

 with upper margin excavated in the middle. 



Nuchal plate very closely punctured throughout, with anterior 

 margin somewhat deeply bisinuate, marked with a straight 

 transverse fine groove. 



First tergile {Fig. 3, A) divided into an anterior and posterior 

 half by a conspicuous transverse keel which runs over the vertex 

 fi*om side to side; lamina very prominent, arising abruptly as in 



A B 



Fig. 3. — Zephronia carinata. 



Z. glabrata, the margin lightly sinuate , a little thickened, and 

 not upturned ; the anterior half of the tergite abruptly sloped 

 downwards and forwards, divided in the middle by a small 

 median longitudinal ridge and bounded in front by a fine keel 

 which starting from the point of origin of the lamina crosses- 

 the vertex parallel to the posterior keel; the whole plate thickly 

 and closely punctured. 



Tergites in the anterior half of the body sparsely granular in 

 front, punctured behind, in the posterior half of the body more 

 or less granular throughout. 



Anal tergite anteriorly granular, posteriorly closely punctured, 

 without a . trace of a marginal notch , but with a conspicuous 

 fine inner ridge. 



