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"emargination ; each half of the basal margin bisinuate, the lateral 

 margins rounded. The edge all round, except the basal black 

 portion, bears short, erect, whitish hairs, is uneven, more so at the 

 lateral rounded portions, and is generally darker than the ground- 

 colour of the pronotum. The upper surface is very uneven, 

 having the following structure : the middle of the basal area is 

 enormously raised into t.wo high peaks (they being the highest 

 points of the surface) with a depression between them ; on each 

 side of these there is a broadly convex, uneven, and oblique area 

 sloping down to the edge; anterior and posterior to these swollen 

 areas are deep depressions ; in front the surface also slopes down, 

 and is broadly convex and tuberculate, narrowing down in the 

 middle into a longitudinal ridge which reaches the front edge ; on 

 either side of this ridge the surface is deeply depressed ; the frontal 

 area, including the swollen and the depressed portions, contain 



Text- figure 3. 



Dorsal view of Kari hrunnea. 



round black spots ; the posteriorly situated depressed areas also 

 contain similar spots ; some^ of these may be impresspd pits or 

 punctures. Scutellum triangular, with the surface fairly plane. 

 Elytra : the front black edge is bisinuate on each side and 

 roughly serrate. The edge all round is roughly serrate, darker 

 than the body-colour, and bears short, erect, whitish hairs. 

 Each elytron is punctate, and with costse and tubercles. The 

 whole surface is very sparsely scattered over with short, erect, 

 whitish hairs which are visible under a high power. The suture 

 is strongly raised. On each elytron there are four costje : the first, 

 that nearest to the suture, is the strongest, running the whole 

 length parallel to the suture, and in its posterior portion at several 

 places swollen into tubercles and joined to the suture and to 

 the second costa by many short transverse cost* ; the second and 



