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fourth joint sliort, thickened, black, with its apex ochj'aceous ; 

 prouotuin about twice as long as broad, thickly, finely punctate, 

 before middle transversely callose, and "thence centrally 

 Jongitudinally carinate, basal margin usually darker as in figure ; 



Fig. 8] . — Iterduca jn-i/na. 



scutellum a little gibbous at base ; legs ochraceous, femora with 

 their incrassated apices darker, those of the anterior i'emora 

 darkest ; tarsi with their apical areas black or blackish. 



Length o-Sg raillim. 



Ilah. South India; Chikkaballapura and Nandidrug (T. V. 

 {Jamphell). 



Genus MEGALOMERIUM 



Megalomeriiiru, Fieh. Wien. E7it. Mun. I8;")4, p. 208; Eur. Hem. 



pp. 54 & 213 (1861) ; Oshan. Verz. Pal. Hem. i, p. 242 



(1906-9). 

 Metacantims, Costa, Cim. Regjii Neap. Cent. 1, p. 27 (18?)8). 

 Megalomerium ? Bredd. Deuisch. Ent. Zeitschr. 1907, p. 37. 



Type, M. meridionale, Costa, a Palaeai'ctic species. 



Distribution. Palajarctic and Oriental Regions. 



Head longer than broad, the apt;x moderately subacutely 

 produced, considerably longer in front of eyes than behind eyes 

 to base ; antennfe slender, first joint longest and very slightly 

 thickened at apex, second and third joints subequal in length, 

 fourth short and distinctly incrassated ; pronotum lona:, twice 

 as long as greatest breadth, with a long distinct anterior narrow 

 collar, gradually subconvexly widened to base, the basal margin 

 very slightly emargiuate, the posterior two-thirds moderately 

 ■convex and with a distinct, central, longitudnial ridge ; scutellum 



