BY THE REV, T. BLACKBURN. 
1401 
hairs except on the ventral segments where these hairs are con- 
centrated in transverse lines (2 each on the basal 2 segments, 1 
each on the rest) ; form very robust and gradually dilating almost 
uniformly from the front to near the apex of the elytra • clypeus 
(with a very strong nearly erect reflexed margin) much narrowed 
from base to apex, the front angles quite rounded off, the outline of 
the sides and front gently convex. The forehead bears a very stout 
recurved horn which is rather strongly punctulate to near the apex ; 
the head behind the horn is impunctate or nearly so. The pro- 
thorax is just half again as wide as it is long down the middle, and 
its base is just twice the width of its front ; the anterior angles 
are well-produced but rounded at the apex, the hind angles obtuse, 
the sides gently arched and not at all sinuate behind the middle ; 
the anterior retuse portion extends backward to about the middle 
of the segment, and neai’ly reaches the rugose lateral fovea on 
either side, its hinder margin being strongly bi-tuberculate (the two 
tubercles rather near to each other), and its surface very nitid and 
punctured on the sides uniformly with the rest of the prothorax, 
on the middle space moi'e closely and confusedly (especially in 
front where the sculpture is close and rugose) ; the rugose fovea 
on either side short (not much longer than wide! ; the furrow 
Avithin the lateral mai-gin is rugose, wide and deep ; that within 
the anterior margin is very obscure in the middle and runs nearly 
parallel to the anterior edge so that the space in front of it is not 
much wider towards tlie middle than close to its ends j the pro- 
thorax is not margined along its base which is broadly but not 
deeply lobed in the middle with a foveate emargination on either 
side. The elytra are at their widest considerably behind the 
middle where their combined width is quite of their length down 
the suture ; they are a little more than twice as long, and (together) 
about a quarter again as wide, as the i)rothorax ; each of them 
bears on the disc six well-defined punctulate strite, of which the 
first (clo.se to the suture) attains the apex, the 2nd fails in the 
ajncal fifth part, the rest are obsolete in about the apical third 
p irt ; the interstices among these slrioi are gently convex and are 
impunctate except the front part of the interstices between the 
