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10. Melanopsacus hopkinsi, sp. n. (Text-fig. 8). 



One of the larger species of this genus, with the basal angle of the prothorax 

 very strongly produced. 



Pitchy black, base of antenna and tarsal claws dark rufous ; markings 

 grey, silky, well denned. Proboscis and head reticulate, grey, occiput black. 

 Pronotum rugate-reticulate, with the 

 following grey markings on each side 

 (indicated in Text-fig. 8) : a broadish 

 stripe along carina curving forward at 

 both ends halfway to apex ; between the 

 two branches a short projection ; a broad 

 apical border not quite reaching to upper 

 portion of eye, somewhat dilated at upper 

 end, laterally connected with the basal 

 border ; in the black dorsal apical area \^\* 

 a spot near middle line; lateral carina Text . fig . s.-Melanopsaous hopkinsi, 

 S-shaped, with the upper portion of the lateral aspect of pronotum, left side. 



S quite short and the lower long. 



Scutellum triangular, apex pointed and depressed. Elytra punctate- 

 striate, interspaces granulose, short basal row of punctures not joining the 

 sutural row ; the following grey markings on each elytrum ; four linear spots 

 at base, more or less connected with one another at basal margin ; a line in 

 sutural interspace from near base to two-thirds ; two linear spots behind sub- 

 basal swelling, two others farther lateral ; a transverse band of seven spots, two 

 of them median, the next three postmedian and the remaining two sublateral 

 and median ; before apical declivity four linear spots in interstices 2, 4, 6, 8 ; 

 a marginal spot below shoulder, followed by a marginal line which reaches 

 beyond middle and reappears at apex, where it joins a line in interspace 2. 

 Pygidium rugate-reticulate, broader than long, strongly narrowing towards 

 apex, which is evenly rounded. 



Prosternum strongly punctate, a narrow line from coxa upwards impunc- 

 tate, as is also a large basal lateral area from the carina downwards. Abdomen 

 minutely and densely punctate, at the bases of the segments a row of large 

 punctures, in middle these punctures more numerous and spread over segments 

 1 to 3, being particularly numerous on 1 and 2. 



