140 APPENDIX. HYDBOMETRIBiE. 



elytra scarcely reaching the ahdominal apex: couuexivum granulose 

 aud pilose. 



Length 2| mi Him. 



Huh. Bengal ; Calcutta, Kajshai (Anaandale). 



" Stridulates when irritated, producing a shrill scraping sound 

 v\hich is perceptible for some yards. Feeds on dead insects. 



Fig. 76. — Microvdia diluta. 



Winged aud apterous individuals occurring together." (Nelson 

 Annandale, in litt.) 



Allied to M. repentina, Dist., but colour of antennae and body 

 beneath different. In some specimens the lateral margins of the 

 abdomen beneath are piceous. 



2914. Microvelia annandalei, Dist. A. M. N. H. (8) iii, p. 501 

 (1909). 



Head and pronotiun dull black ; pronotum with a transverse 

 dull ochraceous subanterior fasi-ia not reaching the lateral margins 

 (this fascia is frequently discoloured and difficult to recognise) ; 

 hemelytra piceous, a basal claval streak, and three spots on apical 

 area (the apical spot linear) dull greyish with a greenish tint ; 

 body beneath black; head beneath, margins of prosternum, lateral 

 margins of abdomen, aud the legs ochraceous ; antennas with the 

 tirst, second, and thii'd joints ochraceous, apices of first and second 

 and the whole of the fourth joint piceous, second joint distinctly 

 shorter than either first or third, third and fourth subequal in 

 length ; head with the apex ochraceous and a pale longitudinal line 



