SCELIMENA. 



23- 



Type in the Paris Museum ; that of S. extensa in tbe British 



Museum. 



Described from Javan specimens. Brunner von Wattenwyl 

 states that Burmese specimens are rather larger than others. 



11. Scelimena India, Hanc 



Scelimcna india, Hancock, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend. 1907, p. 219. 



" Resembling S. j^roducta, but slightly stouter in stature. Body 

 fuscous, pale variegated, the cariuse of dorsum flavo-maculate, the 

 tibiae with pale auuuli. Vertex subequal in width to one of the- 

 eyes, the frontal carina? on each side little compressed and sub- 

 acute. Prouotum anteriorly somewliat subangulate, posteriorly 

 extended beyond the knees of the hind femora as far as the tibial 

 apices, but "not so lengthily attenuate as in prochicta ; dorsum 

 conspersed with granules, depressed and uneven, between the 

 sulci forwards subfossulate on each side, between the shoulders 

 bearing subclavated longitudinal costate protuberances, humeral 

 angles unarmed, behind the shoulders bifossulate, and presenting 

 a pair of rounded sub-elevated nodules ; again another pair, which 

 are indistinct and somewliat fused together, appear posteriorly 

 opposite the middle of the hind femora ; posterior process stout at 

 the base and acuminate towards the apex ; median carina rather 

 incrassate, unevenly undulate anteriorly at the margin, little 

 protuberant and siibtuberculate ; lateral lobes at the anterior 

 margin armed with small tubercles, the posterior margin little 

 laminate outwards, and armed with a distinct acute spine on each 

 side, directed transversely but little curved forward. The posterior 

 femoral margins entire, the posterior tibiae armed with minute 

 denticles, the margins dilated towards the apices ; the first article 

 of the posterior tarsi dilated, but not so widely as in prorfttcius. 

 Length of body entire, male, 19-5 mm.; pronotum, 18 mm.;, 

 posterior femora, 7 mm." 



Assam : Cherrapunji. 



Ty2^e in the Oxford Museum. 



S. j^i'odncta, Serv. { = extenscc, Walk.) from Java and Borneo 

 (Sandakan), with which this species is compared, is a much more 

 slender and tapering species than any of the following. 



12. Scelimena harpago, Serv. 



Tetri.v harpago, Serville, Ins. Orth. 1839, p. 763; BoHvar, Ann. 

 Soc. Ent. Belg-. xxxi, 1887, pp. 216, 217, pi. iv, fig. 13. 



Dull brownish black, thickly granulated, and with a pale 

 yellowish tomentum. Eyes large, prominent, separated by less 

 than half their diameter; between them runs a double carina, as 

 described in the characters of the genus. Antennte black, with 

 white incisions ; placed considerably below and in front of the 

 level of the eyes. Pronotum broader than the head, with the 

 front lateral angles obtusely rounded ; hinder angles with a very 



