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cent; supra humeral horns sharp, compressed dorso-ventrally, ex- 

 tending outward and upward, tips slightly curved backwards, about 

 as long as the distance between their bases ; posterior process 

 earinate. sharp, extending beyond the abdomen but not reaching 

 apices of tegmina : scutellum plainly exposed on each side ; tegmina 

 ferruginous-hyaline, black and punctate at base; hind trochanters 

 strongly armed with teeth : legs and undersurface of body black. 



Head broader than long, subtriangular, black, the fine punc- 

 tures almost entirely hidden by close, short, silvery pubescence ; base 

 of head sinuately convex ; eyes larger, prominent, brown ; ocelli not 

 prominent, translucent blackish-brown, about equidistant from 

 each other and from the eyes and situated somewhat above a line 

 drawn through centres of eyes; inferior margins of genae straight; 

 clypeus a little longer than wide, black, punctate, pubescent, ex- 

 tending for half its length below inferior margins of genae, tip 

 rounded and pilose. 



Pronotum black, coarsely punctate, sparingly pubescent; meto- 

 pidium perpendicular, slightly convex above, weakly pubescent 

 above the eyes and bearing an irregular callosity above the inner 

 angle of each eye ; median carina percurrent, weak over metopidium 

 and sharply ridged over posterior process; dorsum weakly sinuate, 

 lowest directly over scutellum and at tip of posterior process; 

 humeral angles prominent, auriculate ; suprahumeral horns strong, 

 sharp, flattened dorso-ventrally, broad as seen from above, narrow 

 as seen from in front, the posterior edge bicarinate, each horn about 

 as long as the distance between the bases of the horns and extending 

 outward and upward with the tip slightly recurved; scutellum 

 broadly exposed on each side, black, punctate, sparsely pubescent, 

 tip bidentate ; posterior process long, heavy, sharp, punctate, not 

 pubescent, strongly ridged on dorsal median line, weakly earinate 

 just above lateral margins, tip acute, slightly decurved, extending 

 beyond the abdomen and to a point about midway between the 

 interior angle and the apex of the tegmen. 



Tegmina ferruginous-hyaline, wrinkled, appearing darker in 

 the central portion where the black abdomen shows through; base 

 black coriaceous, punctate, sparingly pubescent; veins heavy, black 

 in central area and ferruginous in apical area. 



Undersurface of body black : sides of mesothorax and meta- 

 thorax denselv pubescent with vellowish hairs; abdomen entirely 

 black. 



Legs black or black-brown ; tibiae minutely spined ; tarsi brown 

 or ferruginous ; hind trochanters stronglv armed with teeth. 



"cr J 



Length 7 mm. ; width between tips of suprahumeral horns 5 



mm. 



Type: male. 



Locality: Sandakan, Borneo. 



R. A. Soc, No. 82, 1920. 



