COMPSEUTA. 



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_ This genus, apart from the structure of the head, has a con- 

 siderable resemblance to Acalypta, Westw., a Paltearctic genus ; 

 in this Indian enumeration it may be placed after Phatnoma and 

 probably requires a divisional separation. 



2878. Recaredus rex, Dist. Ann. Soc. Ent. Behj. liii, p. 361 (1909). 



Pale fuscous brown, the interior of the areolets on pronotal 

 vesicle, lateral pronotal margins, scutellum, and costal and sutural 

 areas of the elytra, greyish white ; eyes and antennte piceous, the 



Fig. 51. — Bccaredus rex. 



latter thickly, strongly and brownly pilose ; body beneath and 

 legs castaneous ; elytra longly passing the abdominal apex ; other 

 structural characters as in generic diagnosis. 



Length 3 millim. 



Hah. W. Bengal; Paresnath, 4000 to 4400 feet {Annandale, 

 Ind. Mils.). 



Dr. Annandale discovered a single specimen of this interesting 

 genus and species. 



Genus COMPSEUTA. 

 (To follow Eteonens, Vol. II, p. 129.) 



Monanthia, subgen. Compseuta, Stal, En. Hem. iii, p. 133 (1873). 

 Compseuta, Dist. Tr. S. Afric. Philos. Soc. xiv, p. 433 (1904). 



Type, C. ornatella, Stal, a South African species. 



Distribution. Ethiopian and Oriental Eegions. 



Antennae slender, pilose, first and second joints short, in- 

 crassate, second a little shorter than first, third very long, fourth 

 about as long as first and second together; head short, transverse; 

 eyes not separated from anterior margin of pronotum ; prouotum 

 with the anterior margin truncate, the anterior angles shortly 

 angulate or spinous, somewhat broadly roundly laterally ampliate, 

 longitudinally tricarinate, the central carination procurrent and 



