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tuberculous at base,if not obsoletely broadened, not elevated; meso- 

 sternum only sligbtly elevated, tbe elevation pentagonal, forwardly 

 obliquely ascendant, posteriorly straightly truncate, anteriorly 

 acuminate, extending to between tbe intermediate coxae, the lateral 

 margins just before base subcarinately elevated, disk of meso- 

 sternum quite smooth, not elevated, posterior margin alone before 

 and between coxae filiformly elevated ; rostrum nearly reaching 

 the middle of mesosternum : antennae with the first joint distinctly 

 passing apex of head, second and fourth joints nearly equally long, 

 third shortest, fifth distinctly longer than first ; wings small, 

 subrudimentary." (Breddin.) 



I have not seen this genus, but it is apparently closely allied ta 

 Neosalica, Dist., founded on a Sumatran species in 1882." 



2735. Mesolea pedestris, Bredd. Wien. ent. Zeit. xxi, p. 100 (1902). 



" Opaque, obsoletely punctate and rugulose, sordidly ochraceous- 

 brown ; abdomen and mesosternum ferruginous ; antennae wholly, 

 ' plagula' to middle of surface of head above (frequently obsolete), 

 anterior lateral margin of pronotum with the Inameral dentate 

 angles, two impressed lateral lines (' cicatrices singulas ' inwardly 

 terminating), two diseal somewhat longitudinal incisions 'justa- 

 positis pronoti,' scutellum with two carinate lines on each side 

 ' sequentibus,' the basal angles (including a small round oehraceous 

 spot and outwardly somewhat continued in a submarginal line), 

 also broad apical edge of corium towards basal costal area, broad 

 fasciae to connexivum occupying the incisures above and beneath, 

 two transverse impressed lines ' cicatricaUbus ' to the abdomen 

 above, subimpressed punctures ' pseudoincisurarum extreinitatem 

 exteriorem notantibus,' margins of the spiracles, a median band to 

 abdomen beneath composed of elongate spots, also edge of anal 

 segment of the female, evaporative area with other small spots to 

 pleura, legs (double bands to femora either internal or external 

 excepted), also rostrum and apex of head beneath, black or blackish; 

 membrane subsordidlv oehraceous, the interior angle towards base 

 mfuscate. 



"Antennae a little shorter than half the length of the body, first 

 joint than third (nearly third part) longer, second than fourth 

 scarcely longer, fifth than third twice longer." (Bi'eddin.^ 



" Length 22| to 27| millim." 



ITab. Sikhim (Jide Breddin). 



I have not seen this species. Dr. Breddin as ' Oberlehrer an 

 der latein ' describes in a classical latinity, rather above the usual 

 dog-latin of most poor naturalists ; certain expressions in the above 

 diagnosis I have therefore reproduced as written. 



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