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projecting in front of eye's; and slightly overlapping them ; antennse 
stout, not extending to base of pro thorax, third joint as long as 4 
and 5 combined, 4-6 obconic, 7 very transverse and sub-triangular, 
8-10 round and narrower than 7, eleventh oval and twice as long 
as 10. Prothorax very wide, widely channelled within the strongly 
thickened border, all angles: sub-acute (rounded at extreme tips), 
apex areuate-emarginate, base nearly straight with hind angles 
produced, sides and base of pronotum and the whole elytra! surface 
moderately covered with long, fine, upright yellow hairs, abdomen 
and legs more sparsely clad with shorter hair of darker colour, body 
very convex and solid ; scutellum very transverse, prosternum very 
slightly convex, its process flat with raised margins, rounded at 
apex and received into a widely rounded mesosternal cavity ; inter- 
coxal process very wide, rounded at apex, diverging behind ; legs 
short ; fore tibia? with emarginate crenulate edge on outside, pos- 
terior surface coarsely punctate, tibia? very shortly bispinose at 
apex, the spines almost concealed by tomentose cushion. 
0N0TEICHTJS LATERALIS n. sp. 
Widely oval, black, moderately nitid above, very nitid beneath, 
apical joints of antenna? and tarsi red, tarsi and apex of tibia? 
clothed with reddish tomentum, with a thin line of the same on the 
inside of posterior femora. Head— Lab rum prominent, epistoma 
truncate in front, sides oblique and a little sinuate, very concave 
and depressed anteriorly, limited behind by bisinuate ridge, canthus 
parabolically raised and widened in front of eyes, front convex, 
the whole upper surface of head with large rather distant 
punctures. Prothorax 4 x 9 mm. (length measured in middle), 
greatest width behind middle, much wider at base than at apex 
(8 and 4.5 mm. respectively), emarginate at the produced 
bluntly acute anterior angles, sides very widely rounded with 
a small sinuation at each end, subdentate bluntly acute posterior 
angles deflexed; lateral border thick and rope^like, irregular in 
outline, and coarsely punctured and impressed, becoming more 
attenuate at the angles and much thinner at the apical margins of 
front angles (where it terminates) ; basal margin obsolete, lateral 
gutter of same width as border, strongly transversely rugose; disc 
.moderately convex without any central line, and having a double 
