MEGAC(ELUM. 237 



corium pieeous brown, shortly, palely, sparingly pilose, the costal 

 margin pale ochraceous, cuneus pale castaueou.s brown : membrane 

 pieeous ; body beneath and legs black, the anterior and inter- 

 mediate tibise more or less brownish ochraceous ; head narrowly, 

 longitudinally sulcate between the eyes ; antennae with the basal 

 joint moderately thickened, about as long as the pronotum, second 

 joint a little more than twice as long as the first, third joint a 

 little shorter than second and much longer than i'ourth ; scutellum 

 finely transversely striate ; corium (including cuneus) about as 

 long as posterior tibi;e, clavus and corium concolorous ; rostrum 

 black, with brownish ochraceous suffusions, reaching the posterior 

 coxae; tibia? finely spinulose, the spinules black ; tarsi more or 

 less ochraceous, their apices black, first and second joints of pos- 

 terior tarsi subequal in length ; membrane largely passing the 

 abdominal apex. 



Var. Lateral margins of the pronotum black. 



Length 7 to 8 millim. 



Hab. Mussoorie {Bninetti). 



3015. Megaccelum brunettii, Bist. A. M. N. H. (8) iv, p. 447 (1009). 



Head black, the base sometimes pieeous ; antenuEe with the 

 basal joint black, second joint brownish ochraceous, pieeous at base 

 and more broadly so at apex, third joint pale ocliraceous ; pro- 

 notum black, the narrow anterior collar and narrow posterior 

 margin pale ochraceous ; scutellum black ; clavus and corium 

 black, the latter with the costal area, widening to cuneus, brownish 

 ochraceous, the extreme costal margin, widest before cuneus 

 pieeous ; cuneus pale castaneous, the inner and outer marf^ins' 

 black ; membrane fuscous, reflecting the dark abdomen beneath ; 

 body beneath, trochanters, and coxa? black; legs sanguineous bases 

 and apices of femora and tibite more or less pieeous ; tarsi ochra- 

 ceous ; head moderately convex, finely longitudinally sulcate 

 between the eyes ; antennae with the first joint moderatelv 

 thickened and about as long as pronotum, second slightly more 

 than twice as long as first and distinctly longer than third (fourth 

 mutilated in typical specimens) ; rostrum brownish ochraceous 

 with pieeous suffusions, reaching the posterior cox^e ; pronotum, 

 scutellum, and corium sparsely, finely, palely pilose; scutellum' 

 smooth, not distinctly striate ; corium (including cuneus) about as 

 long as posterior tibiae ; the tibia? finely spinulose, the spinules 

 black ; membrane longly passing the abdominal apex. 



Length 7 millim. 



Hah. Meerut, 750 ft. (Brune(ti). 



301G. Megaccelum marginandum, Bisf. A.M.NH. (R) iv n 417 



(]909). ^" ' 1- ■ ' 



Head and antennae ochraceous, eyes black ; pronotum ochraceous 

 the anterior collar and narrow posterior margin paler, the disk 



