PTILOMERA. 



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purplish-browu, the veins black ; a lateral marginal fascia to 

 pronotum, lateral areas of acetabula, and a submarginal lateral 

 fascia to abdomen silvery-grey ; apices of femora, and the tibiae 

 and tarsi to intermediate and posterior legs pale eastaneous ; 

 head and anterior area of pronotum more or less olivaceousl}' 

 pubescent, the last centrally foveate, the posterior prouotal lobe 

 centrally carinate : antenna3 with the first joint longer than the 

 second and third together, second and fourth joiuts subequal in 

 length. 



Length 12 to 14 millim, 



Hab. Upper Tenasserim {Coll. Dist.). 



Genus PTILOMERA. 

 Ptilomera, Amy. S,- Serv. Hem. p. 41^3 (1<S43). 



Type, P. laticaiidata, Hardw. 



Distribution. Oriental Eegion and China. 



Antennae nearly as long as the body, first joint almost as long 

 as the other three joints together ; rostrum short ; sternum about 

 half the length of the body ; abdomen in $ terminating in a)i 

 augulated club ; anterior legs short, strong, the femora longer 

 than the tibiae, the last with a distinct apical spine ; anterioi- tarsi 

 almost as long as the tibia? ; intermediate femora fringed with 

 long hairs in the ](?. 



980. Ptilomera laticaudata, Hardto. (Gerris) Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv, 



p. 134, pi. vi, ft: 1-4 (1825). 

 Ptilomera laticauda, Amy. ^- Serv. Hem. p. 414, pi. viii, f. 3 ( 1843); 



Herr.-Schaff. Wmiz. Ins. ix, p. 65. f. 940 (1853). 

 Ptilomera ciugalensis. Stal, Of v. Vet.-Ak. Fork, xii, p. 190 (1850). 

 Ptilomera tigriua, Uhler, Proc. Ac. Philad. 18G0. p. 2-30. 



Fig. 133. — Piilomi-ra lulicaudata. 



Pale chocolate-brown ; hemelytra when ])resent darker with 

 their margins paler ; sternum and abdomen beneath pale silvery- 



