130 APPENDIX. — ARADID.'E. 



margin not or scarcely extending beyond the apices of the eyes, 

 six-carinate, the two central cariiiations straighter than those of 

 A. d!(/ii(tti(S, lateral margins ronnded and finely crenulate ; 

 scutelliun a little broader than m A. dignatus ; membrane in 5 

 not quite reaching the abdominal apex. 



Length 5 5| millim. 



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

 Indian Mus.). 



MEZIRA to i-eplace Brachyrhynchus. (Vol. II, p. 159.) 



Mr. C. O. Waterhouse in his " Index Zoologiciis " has shown 

 tliat Brachi/ri/ncJuis was used as a generic term by Selys-Long- 

 ehamps in 1831 (Aves) — "in Van der Mallen, Diet. Geogr, Liege, 

 1831, App. p. 30." Bergroth follo\\ing this up, writes (Canad. 

 Eutomol. 1906, p. 202) : " The genus Bracht/rrhynchus, Lap. must 

 bear the younger name Mezira, Amy, & 8erv., the first name 

 being preoccupied. Bergrotli, however, has raiscopied Laporte's 

 generic name which is BracJn/rhi/ncJnts, and he has not mentioned 

 that the Avian name is Brachi/ripichKs, thougli we must all agree 

 that these terms are practically synonymous, and that Mezira 

 should be substituted. 



2903. Mezira tenuicornis, Dist. A. M. N. H. (8) iii, p. 497 (1909). 



Fuscous ; antenna?, spinous antenniferous tubercles, posterior 

 pronotal lobe and lateral margins of the anterior lobe, coriura, 

 connexivum, body heneatl), and legs more fuscous brown; mem- 

 brane greyish \sith dark veins, the lateral basal angles ochraceous ; 



Fig. 69. — jMcziru tenuicornis. 



antennae with the first, second, and fourth joints incrassate, third 

 joint slender and much the longer ; head granulose, spines in front 

 of eyes long, acute, behind eyes tumid and distinctly latei-allv 



