side near base, the other and smaller at apex ; corium sparingh^ 

 finely granulose, the lateral margins rounded ; connexivum scarcely 

 exposed except slightly near the membrane which does not reach 

 the abdominal apex ; body beneath fuscous, more palely pubescent ; 

 legs dark castaneous, the intermediate and posterior tibiai shortly 

 setose. 



Length 10 milHm. ; breadth of pronotum G^ millim. 



Hah. Assam ; Sibsagar {Coll. Dist.). 



Allied to M. ampUatus, Montand., from New Guinea. 



Family NEPID.E. (Vol. Ill, p. 17.) 



Genus LACCOTREPHES. (Vol. Ill, p. 17.) 



3088. LaCCOtrepheS elongatus, Montand. Bull. Soc. Sti. Bucaresi 

 XV, p. 330 (1907). 



" Elongate, the lateral margins subparallel ; head longitudinally 

 carinate, the carination fairly obtuse, more or less tuberculous, 

 uninterrupted ; eyes small, somewhat projecting, very divergent 

 behind, the intraocular space much enlarged, about tuice broader 

 in front than the greatest diameter of the eye ; pronotum louo-, 

 as long as broad, the lateral margins subparallel, scax-cely enlarged 

 on the posterior fourth, carinations of the anterior area very 

 obtuse, and little elevated ; scutellum long, longer than broad at 

 base, the lateral margins slightly and obtusely sinuate near the 

 apex, the carinations very little elevated and indistinct ; elytra 

 very little and very obtusely enlarged at middle, claval commissure 

 nearly twice longer than the length of the scutellum and more 

 than twice the breadth of the base of the scutellum ; membrane 

 brown, well developed, reticulate ; abdomen above a deep brown, 

 a little paler, nearly reddish, on the margins ; wings a little 

 hyaline ; appendices shorter than the body, scarcely longer 

 than the abdomen : anterior femora a little longer than the 

 posterior breadth of the pronotum, with a strong tooth fairly 

 elevated and obliquely subtruncate at apex, situate near the base 

 at the lower or inner edge of the furrow which contains the tibia 

 in repose ; the inner low'er edge of this furrow (which is onlv 

 present close to the base [of the femur]) is also, but \ery ob- 

 tusely, dentated, that is to say that the dilatation of the margin 

 of the furrow is a little elevated near the basal angle ; inter- 

 mediate and posterior legs moderately sleuder, the intermediate 

 tibiae much shorter than their femora ; presternum with a small 

 conical tubercle in front, regularly convex for its whole length." 

 {Montandon.) 



