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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



[July, '19 



and a brown, trilobate cloud on the disk. Scutellum very broad, 

 rounded behind. Elytra subparallel, clothed with lemon-yellow pubes- 

 cence, fasciate with black as shown in figure ; apices rounded. An- 

 terior two-thirds of mesosternum oblique, posterior third flat. 



Legs reddish testaceous, except the femora which are pic^ous ; 

 clothed Avith short, depressed, cinereous pubescence and longer, semi- 



Fig. 3. X15 



Megacheuma tnelanosticum. Fig. i, dorsal view ; fig. 2, antenna ; fig. 3, prosternum. 



erect, golden-brown pubescence ; the latter very sparse on the femora, 

 booming denser on the tibiae and tarsi ; tarsi with a few, interspersed, 

 hlack hairs; hind tarsi compressed, the first joint equal in length to the 

 combined lengths of the remaining joints. 



