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liEDUviin.i;. 



Division POLIDID US ART A. 



In this division the anterior femora, are grannkte, generally 

 nodose or nodulose, and always spinous ; it is in fact in the 

 spinous condition of the legs, and genei'ally also of the body, that 

 the principal divisional characteristics are found. 



Si/no2}sis of Genera. 



A. Head ^vith the central lobe not spinous!}' 



produced. 



a. First and second joints of rostrum sub- 



equal in length SciriNiA, ]). •"584. 



b. First joint of rostrum longer than second. 



a. Postocular area of head much longer 



than anteocular; anterior femora 

 spined 



b. Postocular area a little longer than 



anteocular; all the femora spined. . 



B. Head with the central lobe longiy, 



spinously produced IlENRicoiiAnxiA, ]>. 387. 



Ihantiia. p. .■58.'). 

 POLIDIDUS, p. 380. 



Genus SCIPINIA. 



Scipinia, Stal, Stett. etit. Zeit. xxii, pp. 137 \- 138 (1801) : id. 

 Hem. iv, p. G (1874). 



IJn. 



Type, -S.//orrn/a, Stfil. 



DistributioH. Oriental and Australasian liegions. 

 Body subelongate ; head above with three long spines on each 

 side and with a number of small obscure spines or spimdes between 

 or around them ; rostrum with the first and second joints equal in 

 length ; lirst joint of antenniie very slightly longer than head ; 

 anterior lobe of pronotum with four long and a number of smaller 

 spines, posterior lobe unarmed, lateral angles a little upwardly 

 directed : mesosterniun with a small tubercle on each side ; anterior 



femora moderately incrassated, nodu- 

 lose, with a long spine above near 

 apex, and witli a double series of 

 spines beneath ; anterior femora and 

 tibiae nearly equally long, the last on 

 each side very obsoletely spiuulose. 



1321. Scipinia horrida, StSJ. (Sinea). 

 Freff. Eug. llesa, his. p. 262 (1859) ; 

 id. En. Hem. iv, p. 15 (1874). 



Sinea peltastes, Dohrn, Stett. ent. 

 Zeit. xxi, p. 406 (1860). 



Oehraceous ; base of head above 

 and spots to connexivum, the largest 

 on fourth and fifth segments, black ; 

 membrane bronzy, its apical area paler, subhyaline ; clavus fuscous ; 



Fig. 244. — Scipinia Jiorridu. 



