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CATA>"rOPiy.'E. 



Genus BRACHYXENIA, no\ . 



Ti'PE, CaJoptcnvs sciififer, Walk. 



Mange. India. 



Body very broad. Head very broad ; eyes promiuent, slightly 

 oval; fastigiura of the vertex not depressed, with a slight carina 

 within each eye above, passing into the frontal ridge without a 

 break ; frontal ridge flattened, slightly sloping, the carinse very 

 sliglitly indicated between the antennae, lateral cariuiB obsolete ; 

 face thickly and rather coarsely, but not distinctly punctured, 

 vertex and back of head sraootli ; antennae filiform, shorter than 

 the head and pronotum together. Pronotum broader than the 

 liead, strongly punctured and granulated, with the median carina 

 well marked in front, but evanescent beyond the middle ; lateral 

 carinse absent, hinder edge produced into an acute angle ; sulci very 

 slightly marked and undulated, the hind sulcus placed considerably 

 before the middle. Prosternal tubercle forming a transverse 

 flattened lamina ; mesosternal lobes sepai^ated by a sjiace equal 

 to their own breadth ; metasternal lobes separated by the fossae. 

 Tegmiuaas long as the abdomen, with nearly parallel sides, slightly 

 expanded on the costa near the base, and with the extremity 

 obtusely rounded ; wings as long as the tegmina, rounded and 



scalloped. Hind femora very 

 stout, strongly ridged and 

 granulated, and pubescent be- 

 neath ; hind tibiae as long as 

 the femora, with 7-9 spines 

 on the carina. 



This curious genus has a, 

 superficial resemblance to 

 Truethls. At present I place 

 it provisionally near Catantops. 



315. Bracliyxenia scutifera, 



Walk. 



Caloptenvs scutifm-, Walker, 

 Cat. Derm. Salt. IJ.M. iv, 

 1870, p. 704, 11. 56. 



Light brownish grey (dis- 

 coloured?). Head, abdomen, 

 and hind femora whitish, the 

 granules on the pronotum and 

 the raised striae on the hind femora yellowish, the carinfe, knees, 

 and lower ai-ea of the femora with black S])eckles ; tegmina ^^ ith 

 traces of dusky markings towards the base and before the tip, and 

 also of a longitudinal row of whitish spots ; there are also traces of 

 blackish spaces on the mesopleura, towards the tips of the femora, 

 and on the knees ; the tibial spines and abdominal appendages are 

 tipped with black. 



Fi?. Vo^->.—Tii'achyxp)na licniifcra. 

 (a) hind leg. 



