MESAMBRIA. 



221 



9 (8) Face yellow, ninttled with black, cinctifciiinr, Walk., p. 2)i2. 

 10 (7) No yellow line bordoriiiij;- the 



eves scabra, Walk., p. 221. 



265. Mesambria sca"bra, W((Vi-. 



Caloptcnus scaber, M'alker, Cat. Denii. 8alt. 13.M. iv, 1870, 

 p. 707, 



Dark brown, with blackish markings. Head with the carinas 

 between the eyes above parallel, not expanded but truncated at 

 the end of the fastigium ; frontal ridge sulcated, slightly punctured 

 above, the carina^ and also the lateral carinas nearly straight ; a 

 broad and irregular, but rather indistinct and ill-defined, black 

 stripe running behind the eyes over the sides of the pronotuin 

 and abdomen, and on this, on the middle lobe of the pronotum, 

 stands a very large round depression, Pronotum and abdomen 

 with a strongly marked median carina, and witii very large and 

 crowded depressed punctures, becoming smaller posteriorly ; sides 

 aud under surface of pronotum and abdomen paler than above, 

 Tegmina narrow, parallel-sided, roundly truncate at the extremity, 

 blackish on the costal half, and testaceous behind, extending to 

 the end of the first segment of the abdomea. Hind femora 

 thick, as long as the abdomen, with two indistinct brown trans- 

 verse bands above, and black mottling on the lateral areas ; knees 

 blackish on the sides : tibite testaceous, with 7 black spines on the 

 outer and 8 on the inner carina ; prosternal spine short, thick, 

 pyramidal, 



Leiir/tJi '2o mm.; tegmina, 4 mm. 



Bexgal : Bai'dwan. 



Ti/pe in the British Museum. 



206. Mesambria dubia, Walh-. 



Acn'dium dvhiuin, "Walker, Cat. Uerm. Salt. B.M. iv, 1870, 

 p. 632, 

 Dark brown, mottled with blackish ; head, pronotum, and 

 abdomen above with large rugose anastomosing punctures, Fas- 

 tigium of vertex triangularly expanded before the eyes, frontal 

 ridge sulcatc, the carina) approximating above and slightly 

 divergent below, the suture punctured, lateral carinas nearly 

 straight, not prominent ; head blackish above and below, a 

 narrow pale line running from the back of the head round the 

 upper part of each eye to the base of the antenna?, a wide 

 testaceous band running beloM' each eye across the front and 

 sides of the head, and the palpi also pale ; antennae tawny to the 

 middle, with long blackish spots, and blackish beyond the middle, 

 Prosternal tubercle short, conical. Tegmina blackish, very short 



