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1297. Alcmena angusta, StSl, Of v. Vet.- Ah. Fork. 1859, p. 195. 

 Alcmeua spinifex, Stal (parit.), En. Hem. iv, p. 24 (1874). 



Fuscous black, sparingly (sternum densely) whitisbly sericeous ; 

 spines of pronotum and scutelluu3, hemelytra, and abdomen dull 

 flavescent-testaceous, tbe last with its apex fuscous ; rostrum and 

 legs pilose and pale olivaceous-green ; apices of femora and tibia? 

 (the last slightly) and the tarsi fuscous. 



Length 12 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon {Berlin JIus.). 



T have not seen this species. Stfd subsequently sank it as a 

 synonym of Cimer spinifex, Thunb. ; but this I have shown to be 

 an error {cf. p. 375). 



1298. Alcmena straminipes, sp. u. 



Stramineous ; head, pronotum, corium, and seutellum (excluding 



margins and apex) ochraceous : 

 head with two large spots be- 

 hind eyes, a lateral fascia on 

 each side of anterior pronotal 

 lobe, and the lateral spines to 

 posterior lobe dark fuscous or 

 black ; antennae with the first 

 and second joints stramineous, 

 basal area and apex of second 

 joint fuscous ; head a little 

 shorter than pronotum, a long- 

 acute spine on each side behind 

 base of each antenna ; rostrum 

 with the first joint much longer 

 than second, about as long as 

 two remaining joints together, 

 first joint ochraceous, second 

 stramineous, third pale casta- 

 neous ; pronotum with the an- 

 terior lobe centrally impressed, 

 posterior lobe with two prominent discal, basal, tuberculous spines, 

 the lateral spines acute, horizontally directed, their apices slightly 

 recurved ; scutelhnn with a slender oblique suberect apical spine ; 

 intermediate aud posterior femora with their apices subnodulose ; 

 membrane very pale fuliginous. 

 Length 15 millim. 

 Hah. Nilgiri Hills; Utakamand (Atlhison, Brit. 3Ii(S.). 



Fig. 2S-i.—A/c,jieiia slraijihirpes. 



1299. Alcmena maculosa, sp. n. 



A nteocular area of head, antennae, rostrum, pronotum, seutellum, 

 bases of hemelytra, sternum, and legs ochraceous-brovvn ; post- 



