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tooth ; pronotum somewhat uneven, black, with four greyish spots, 

 which are due to a grey velvety pilosity ; the two smaller of these 

 touch the anterior, the two larger the posterior margin, and appear 

 as though forming parts of two vittse, each of which is interrupted in 

 the middle ; prosternum produced between the procoxae and there 

 deeply notched, pitchy red, and clothed with a grey pilosity. Scu- 

 tellum rounded, black, and glabrous. Elytra black, broad at the 

 base, gradually tapering to the apex, where they are slightly divari- 

 cate, truncate, and furnished with a small obtuse and obscure tooth 

 in the middle as well as at each angle of the truncature : each elytron 

 has three carinse ; the first is prominent, originates near the base, and 

 curves towards the suture but without reaching it, terminating in the 

 apical area ; the second originates on the disk considerably below the 

 humeral angle, and running parallel with the first, unites therewith 

 in the apical area ; the third is nearly obsolete ; it is situate on the 

 apical half of the elytron, between the second carina and the costal 

 margin ; the costal margin is pitchy red, and clothed with a gre}"^ pu- 

 bescence : the wings are fuliginous, slightly longer than the elytra, 

 and unfolded : the legs are rather long ; the metatibise slightly in- 

 curved, and fiirnished with two apical spines : the under surface of . 

 the thoracic and abdominal segments is of a pitchy red colour, clothed 

 with a sparse grey pubescence ; the legs are of a similar colour, but 

 the pubescence is scarcely observable. 



Fern. — Head somewhat cordate, black, velvety, with a large ful- 

 vous spot occupying the face and extending to the epicranium be- 

 tween the eyes, but not reaching the anterior margin of the pro- 

 thorax ; a deep longitudinal epicranial sulcus extends forwards to 

 between the bases of the antennse : eyes arcuate, reniform, pitchy 

 black : antennse more than half the length of the body, 11 -jointed ; 

 the first joint rather short, somewhat obconical ; the second very 

 short ; the third the longest, but still not disproportionately so, di- 

 lated at the apex ; the fourth and fifth of the same form, but shorter ; 

 the remainder, to the eleventh, slender at the base, but dilated and 

 somewhat cupshaped at the apex, receiving into the cup the base of 

 the next succeeding joint, and being produced into a strong obtuse 

 lobe, tooth, or serrature on one side ; this is very conspicuous, and 

 gives the antenna a subserrated appearance ; on the opposite side is a 

 very slight, scarcely perceptible indication of a like lobe ; the eleventh 

 joint is sesquialterous. Prothorax nearly equal in length and breadth, 

 the anterior narrower than the posterior margin, the lateral margins 

 uneven and slightly lobed in the middle ; pronotum uneven, with a 

 slightly impressed anterior and posterior submarginal transverse sul- 

 ■ cus, velvety black, with two broad irregular longitudinal vittae of a 

 bright fulvous orange colour ; prosternum produced between the pro- 

 coxae, and the process notched. Scutellum short, rounded, black, 

 shining. Elytra at the base much wider than the prothorax, gra- 

 dually narrovFing to the apex, where they are slightly dehiscent, trun- 

 cated, and the truncature produced in the middle into an obtuse, 

 scarcely perceptible tooth ; each elytron has three carinse ; the first is 

 prominent, originating near the base, and curves very gradually to- 



