A.CESTEA. 



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the pronotum ; antennae long, four-jointed, basal joint nearly as 

 long as the head and pronotum together, stout, thickened towards 

 the apex, second joint about as long as the first, slender, 

 thickened towards the base, thinner than the first, first and second 

 joints clothed with long soft hairs, third joint about half as long 

 as the second, thinner, clothed with very fine soft hairs, last 

 joint wanting; rostrum long and slender, reaching the middle of 

 the metasternum, inserted on a level with the apices of the lateral 

 lobes of the head, four-jointed, basal joint not reacliing the base 

 of the head, second joint longest, third shortest, fourth nearly as 

 long as the first." {Dallas.) 



Pronotum much longer than broad, scarcely wider than the 

 head, the lateral margins almost straight and parallel, anterior 

 margin truncate, posterior margin deflected, truncate, a small 

 tubercle on each side before the basal angles of the scutellum which 

 is elongate and angulate ; corium and membrane of almost equal 

 length, the latter not reaching the apex of the abdomen and 

 thickly finely veined ; legs moderately slender, femora only slightly 

 thickened towards apices ; sternum more or less centrally longi- 

 tudinally sulcate. 



The description of the antennae given by Dallas applies only (so 

 far as known at present) to the typical species A. sinica ; in 

 A. malayana the}' are not haired and the proportional length of 

 the joints is different. 



2760. Acestra sinica, Dall. List Rem. ii, p. 488, t. xiv, f. 4 

 (1852). 



Pale ochraceous ; head obscurely and minutely punctate, pro- 

 duced portion of the central lobe clothed with long soft whitish 



Fig. 277. — Acedra sinica. 

 hairs, a central longitudinal impressed line from near the latitude 



