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with broad deep excavation, ia the form of a (nearly semicircular) 

 rounded segment, which, at its debouchure, occupies about half of 

 the whole breadth of the terminal margin, and is bordered laterally 

 by sharp pointed (almost rectangular) corners." (Breddin.) 



"Length Hi millim." 



Hah. Assam {fide Breddin). 



It is very difficult to understand the position or validity of this 

 species as Bredchn has in part corai)ared it with C. noctua, Dist. 

 This species he has clearly misunderstood in a redescription he has 

 made of it (Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1906, p. 49), and this despite the 

 fact that at his request I forwarded him cotypes of this and several 

 others of ray species of the genus. These remarks are necessitated 

 by the strange course he has pursued of directly contradicting 

 some of the characters I gave for C. noctua, the accuracy of which 

 I here reaffirm. 



Genus PENDULINUS. (Vol. I, p. 3S7.) 

 2755. Pendulinus rostratus, sp. n. 



Pale ochraceous; membrane black; antennae and legs pale 

 testaceous ; antennae with the apices of the second and third 

 joints black, fourth joint piceous, with a broad subbasal annulation 

 and the extreme apex stramineous, first, second and third joints 

 subequal in length, fourth longest ; rostrum passing the posterior 

 coxae, first joint reaching or very slightly passing base of head, 

 second joint extending almost midway between anterior and inter- 

 mediate coxae, third reaching intermediate coxae, fourth longest, 

 its apex black, all the joints beneath with a central black 

 line ; head slightly longer than breadth between eyes, sparingly 

 blackly punctate, broadly produced in front of the bases of the 

 antennae, the central lobe prominent and ridged, ocelli much 

 nearer eyes than to each other ; pronotum thickly, coarsely, 

 darkly punctate, the lateral angles distinctly broadly angularly 

 produced, the lateral margins very narrowly black; scutellum a 

 little longer than broad at base, thickly, coarsely, densely punctate, 

 its extreme apex paler and impunctate ; corium thickly and some- 

 what finely darkly punctate, the veins levigate and prominent ; 

 sternum coarsely punctate, a small black spot on each section at a 

 short distance from the coxag ; spiracles inserted before middle of 

 abdominal segment, a small black spot near middle of lateral areas 

 of each segment ; tibiae sulcated, femora only slightly incrassated. 



Length 18 ; breadth between pronotal angles 64 millim. 



Hah. Bombay (Dixon). 



This species differs from the ordinary form of the genus Pendu- 

 linus by the length of the rostrum and the angularly produced 

 pronotal angles ; these divergencies however have been admitted 

 in the genus ifomoeocerus, and I allow the same principle here. 



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