218 [October, 



first tibiae are very much reduced ; on the ri^ht side are five tarsal joints 

 and claws, on the left two moderate joints and a third as a mere nodule. 

 The second tibiae cany on the right side two tarsal joints, the second 

 with claws, and on the left three joints without claws, and the second 

 one with a small diverticulum. 



The antennae on both sides are thinned and narrowed for a number 

 of joints at about half their length, chiefly b}^ shortening of the 

 pectinations. 



It would seem, then, that besides the lesser injuiies to wing and 

 antennae, the semifluid tissues representing the palpi and first two pairs 

 of legs were much bruised and mixed up, some even escaping by the 

 wound, and that in consequence the palpi, some sternal pieces, the coxae, 

 trochanters, and femora were nnable to develop as distinct and recog- 

 nisable pieces ; that the tibiae and tarsi should have been i-ather more 

 successful in their development may be due to these parts having each 

 a separate encasement that retained some of theii' proper embryonic 

 material. 



Eeigate. 



Aug. ith, 1917. 



NOTES ON TEOPICAL AMEEICAN LAGRIIDAE, WITH DESCEIPTIONS 

 OP NEW SPECIES. 



BY G. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S. 



(Concluded from p. 195.) 



PsEUDOLAGEiA, n. gen. 



Maxillar}^ and labial palpi (figs. 14, 14 a) with the apical joint oblong- 

 ovate, slender, the former obliquely truncate at tip ; ligula broad, widely euiar- 

 giiiate in front ; nieutum (fig. 14) strongly transverse, arcuately dilated on each 

 side auteriorh- ; mandibles (fig. 14 ^) unemarginate at the tip, feebly toothed 

 before the apex beneath ; labrum well developed, transverse ; head short, 

 broad, deeply inserted into the prothorax, constricted into a neck behind, the 

 epistoma very short and limited by a deep transverse groove ; eyes large, feebly 

 emargiuate ; antennae long, serrate, feebly so in § ; prothorax short, immar- 

 giuate laterally, margined at base ; scutellum subtriangular ; elytra long, about 

 twice as broad as the prothorax, confusedly punctate, with prominent humeri, 

 the epipleura reaching to near the tip ; anterior coxae oval, exserted, ahnost 

 contiguous, the extremely narrow intercoxal portion of the presternum de- 

 pressed, the cavities closed by the inwardly extended narrow epimera ; 

 mesosternuni well developed anteriorly, carinate down the centre in front ; 

 intermediate coxae narrowly separated; metasternum long, the episterna 

 broad ; intercoxal process of abdomen narrow, subtriangular ; legs slender, 

 simple, tibial spurs wanting, penultimate tarsal joint dilated, emarginate 

 above, basal joint of posterior pair elongate, tarsal claws long and slender ; 

 body elongate, hairy. 



