128 • TINGIBIB.E. 



Genus PARACOPIUM. 



Paraeopium, Dlst. A. M. N. II. (7) ix, p. 354 (UJO-'j. 



Type, P. ciiic/alense, Walk. 



Distribution. Oriental Region. 



Antennae vei'y stout and robust, first and second joints stout, 

 first longer than second, third very long, fourth a little longer 

 than first and second together : head not produced in front of 

 antenniferous tubercles, obscurely centrally carinate, and with two 

 spinous carinations extending from base to about centre of inner 

 margins of eyes ; pronotuin with its anterior margin truncate, a 

 little concavely sinuate, posterior margin longly, angularly, poste- 

 riorly developed, its disk tricarinate, central carination straight, 

 almost continuous, the two otlier carinations much shorter, with 

 their apices inwardly curved before reaching anterior margin ; 

 hemelytra with the costal area only defined, the lateral margins 

 sinuate, a little narrowed posteriorly ; sutural area of a distinct 

 membranaceous form ; femora and tibiae subequal in length. 



891. Paraeopium cingalense. Wall-. (Dictvonota) Cat. Het. vi, p. 178 



(1873) ; I)ist. A. M. N. H. (7) ix, p."3o4 (1902). 



Pale ochraceous ; antennae, eyes, and 

 two transverse spots behind the anterior 

 margin of the pronotum piceous ; legs 

 ochraceous, the femora brownish-oclira- 

 ceous ; antennas very stout, the apical joint 

 stoutest and globose ; pronotum tricari- 

 nate (the central carination continuous, 

 remaining two not passing anterior 

 area), granulate, its apex areolate ; elytra 

 areolate ; sutural area well defined ; under 

 surface imperfectly seen owing to speci- 



^ ^^ „ . mens being carded. 



^'^•'i;^ir""" Leagth'4 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon (Thivaites, Brit. Mus.). 



892. Paraeopium lewisi, I)ist. Ann. Soc. JEnt. Bely. xlvii, p. 48 



(190.3). 



• Puscous-brown ; lateral margins of the hemelytra pale hyaline, 

 with transverse fuscous linear spots ; pronotum with the lateral 

 and anterior margins and the longitudinal carinations greyishly 

 fuscous ; membranous portion of the hemelytra with reticulate 

 dark fuscous venation. Elongate ; antennse stout, robust, second 

 joint more slender than first and about half its length, third joint 

 nearly twice as long as first and second joints together, fourth 

 joint a little more than half the length of third ; head with a 

 distinct pale central basal carination at inner margin of each eye ; 



