MOKANNA. Ill 



concave, their anterior margins subtruncate, their outer margins 

 moderately convex, a little subangulate behind middle ; other 

 structural characters as in generic diagnosis. 



Fig. 54. — -Edefonsus provorsus. 



Length incl. elytra 3| millim. 



Hal). E. Himalayas ; Ghoom, 7500 ft. (Lid, i/tw.). 



Genus MOKANNA, nov. 



Type, M. py'inceps, Dist. 



Distribution. Received from Trichinopoly. 



Pronotal hood covering the head, elongate, narrowed anteriorly, 

 areolate, centrally longitudinally carinate ; antennae slender, 

 elongate, first joint about half the length of pronotal hood, 

 second about half the length of first, third very long, as long as 

 pronotum and hood together, fourth joint about as long as first and 

 second together ; pronotum \^'ith the lateral margins laminately 

 produced, areolate, horizontal, anterior and lateral margins 

 obliquely truncate, anterior angle subacute, posterior angle 

 rounded, the disk centrally longitudinally carinate and with a 

 short curved carinate line near each lateral margin of the anterior 

 area which is convex, its apex triangular and covering the scutellum ; 

 apex of head beneath the pronotal hood with two distinct porrect 

 spines ; the elytra are twice as long as the abdomen, arched and 

 dilated from near base, the costal area wide, hyaline, largely 

 areolate, widened posteriorly, the subcostal area convex, narrow 

 and opaque, the discoidal area short and broad, about half the 

 length of costal area, opaque, areolate, apices of the sutural 

 ai'eas broadly rounded ; legs somewhat long and slender, the 

 femora slightly thickened ; rostrum unseen in carded typical 

 specimens. 



