﻿Manchester 
  Memoirs, 
  Vol. 
  xliii. 
  (1899), 
  No. 
  3. 
  195 
  

  

  Scape 
  of 
  antennae 
  above 
  covered 
  with 
  short, 
  blackish 
  

   pubescence, 
  below 
  with 
  longer, 
  fuscous 
  hair; 
  theflagellum 
  

   thickly 
  with 
  minute, 
  stiff 
  pubescence. 
  Head 
  black 
  ; 
  the 
  

   inner 
  orbits 
  from 
  the 
  antennae 
  to 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  mandibles 
  

   broadly, 
  the 
  upper 
  third 
  narrowly, 
  yellowish 
  testaceous. 
  

   Face 
  strongly 
  punctured, 
  running 
  into 
  irregular 
  reticula- 
  

   tions 
  ; 
  projecting 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  below 
  the 
  antennae 
  ; 
  the 
  

   apex 
  of 
  the 
  clypeus 
  impunctate, 
  the 
  sides 
  straight, 
  oblique. 
  

   The 
  basal 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  mandibles 
  above 
  and 
  below 
  with 
  

   large, 
  deep 
  punctures 
  ; 
  the 
  middle 
  with 
  two 
  stout 
  keels 
  ; 
  

   covered 
  with 
  longish, 
  white 
  hair 
  ; 
  the 
  palpi 
  fuscous. 
  Meso- 
  

   notum 
  strongly 
  punctured, 
  the 
  punctures 
  large, 
  deep 
  ; 
  the 
  

   base 
  transverse, 
  the 
  middle 
  lobe 
  forming 
  a 
  large 
  triangular 
  

   piece 
  raised 
  above 
  the 
  rest, 
  especially 
  at 
  the 
  base. 
  Scutel- 
  

   lum 
  shining, 
  the 
  apex 
  with 
  a 
  plumbeous 
  hue 
  ; 
  the 
  

   punctures 
  large, 
  deep, 
  more 
  widely 
  separated 
  ; 
  the 
  fovea 
  

   at 
  the 
  base 
  large, 
  deep, 
  as 
  wide 
  as 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  

   scutellum 
  ; 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  are 
  three 
  stout 
  keels 
  ; 
  the 
  middle 
  

   one 
  straight, 
  the 
  outer 
  slightly 
  thinner 
  and 
  more 
  oblique. 
  

   Postscutellum 
  flat, 
  large, 
  having 
  a 
  small 
  fovea 
  in 
  the 
  

   centre 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  and 
  a 
  large 
  deep 
  one, 
  on 
  either 
  side, 
  

   reaching 
  near 
  to 
  the 
  apex. 
  Median 
  segment 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  

   with 
  a 
  small 
  area 
  wider 
  than 
  long 
  and 
  with 
  its 
  apex 
  

   roundly 
  bent 
  inwardly 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  ; 
  the 
  apex 
  flat 
  ; 
  

   stoutly 
  transversely 
  striolated 
  ; 
  the 
  sides 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  

   irregularly 
  reticulated, 
  irregularly 
  margined 
  at 
  the 
  apex 
  ; 
  

   the 
  sides 
  irregularly 
  reticulated 
  in 
  front 
  of 
  the 
  spiracles. 
  

   The 
  base 
  and 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  propleurae 
  closely 
  punctured 
  ; 
  

   the 
  middle 
  depressed 
  ; 
  the 
  central 
  depression 
  at 
  the 
  top 
  

   somewhat 
  obliquely, 
  the 
  rest 
  stoutly 
  longitudinally, 
  strio- 
  

   lated. 
  Mesopleurae 
  closely 
  punctured 
  above 
  and 
  at 
  the 
  

   base 
  ; 
  the 
  lower 
  part 
  more 
  strongly 
  punctured, 
  almost 
  

   running 
  into 
  oblique 
  striations 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  ; 
  the 
  apex 
  

   crenulated 
  ; 
  the 
  middle 
  very 
  smooth, 
  shining, 
  and 
  of 
  a 
  

  

  