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Genus Staurocleis, nov. 



Similar to Cardenius in the general facies, but the strongly 

 reclinate and conical head gives it a striking superficial re- 

 semblance to a member of the subfamily Pyrgomorphinse. 



Antenupe thick, somewhat flattened. Head obtusely 

 conical ; face strongly oblique ; frontal ridge above the 

 ocellum strongly prominent, dilated and deeply sulcate ; 

 below the ocellum it becomes narrow, very low, subobliterate. 

 Fastigium of the vertex strongly prominent forwards, prac- 

 tically horizontal, flat, with the margins obtuse. Distance 

 between the eyes somewhat broader than the frontal ridge 

 at its widest. Eyes oblique, oval, their vertical diameter 

 about twice the horizontal one. The lateral facial keels 

 obliterate. Pronotum conical, with the disc only feebly 

 convex, but the lateral keels wanting ; the median keel 

 nearly obliterated by the puncturation ; transverse sulci 

 pronounced ; prozona subequal to the metazona ; the hind 

 angle of the latter obtuse, scarcely rounded apically. Fro- 

 sternal tubercle subcylindrical, somewhat compressed later- 

 ally, perfectly straight, with the apex truncate or rounded. 

 Mesosternal interspace X-shaped ; the lobes almost touching 

 each other in the middle in the male and narrowly separated 

 in the female. Metasternal lobes not separated. Elytra 

 practically parallel-sided, with the apex somewhat obliquely 

 truncate. Hind femora broad and short; the upper and 

 lower external areas coarsely and densely punctured ; the 

 externo-median area smooth, with the transverse sulci regu- 

 larly arched, not angulate; the lower carina strongly wavy. 

 Hind tibiae somewhat shorter than the femora, with nine 

 external and ten internal spines, with an apical external 

 spine. 



Genotype : Staurocleis magnifica, sp. n. 



This curious insect may be easily mistaken for a member 

 of the Pyrgomorphinse, close to Ochi^ophlebia^ which it re- 

 sembles both in general facies and in the type of coloration; 

 it is, however, a Catantopine and undoubtedly related to 

 Cardenius. From the latter it differs in the peculiar shape 

 of the frontal ridge, in the subobliterate median keel of the 

 pronotum, in the prosternal tubercle being not conical and 

 somewhat compressed laterally, in the mesosternal interspace 

 being strongly constricted in its middle, and in the very 

 peculiarly formed hind femora. 



5. Staurocleis magnifica^ sp. n. 

 ($ . Head, pronotum, and pleurae strongly rugosely punc- 

 tured. Perfectly black all over, with the exception of the 



