TRA^VTHA. 



3S5 



posterior^ Jobe of pronotum gramilate, its lateral angles acute ; 

 intermediate and postei-ioi- femora subnodulose near apices ; ab- 

 domen ill female dilated, especially at foui-tli and fifth segments. 



Length 10 millim. 



Hah. ^\\ihmi{Atlinson, Brit. Mus.). Ceylon. Burma; Karennee 

 {Fea). — Philippines. 



Genus IRANTHA. 



Ir.-iiitlia, Stal, Strtt. cut. 

 IK (i (1874). 



Zeit. xxii, p. ]:37 (Isijl) ; id. En. Ilei 



Type, /. armipes, Stfil. 



Distrihution. Oriental and Papnan Regions. 

 Body elongate; head subequal in length to pronotum, armed 

 above with three double series of long spines, the two anterior 

 longest, and behind these smaller scattered spines or spinnles, 

 narrowed behind eyes, with two small spines near base ; first joint 

 of antennte a little longer than head ; rostrum with the first joint a 

 third longer than second ; anterior lobe of ])ronotum with numerous 

 minute acute tubercles and with four rather long spines posterior 

 lobe unarmed, the lateral angles spiuously acute ; mesosteriium 

 minutely tuberculateon each side ; legs of moderate length, anterior 

 I'emora moderately incrassated, nodose, spinous, tiie spines beneath 



and the subapical one above longest ; 

 .•interior tibia) shorter than anterior 

 femora and beneath on each side 

 obsoletely densely spinulose. 



1322. Irantha armipes, StSi (Ilai-pac- 



tor), Ofii. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1855, p. 189 ; 

 id.Stett. ent. Zeit. xxii, p. 1.38 (1861). 

 8inea lioplites, Dohrn, Stett. ent. 

 Zeit. xxi, p. 400 (1860). 



Brownish-ochraceous ; first joint of 



antenna) anuulated with fuscous ; head 



piceous : membrane bronzy ; con- 



uexivum broadly transversely spotted 



Fig. '2Ab.— Irantha with black, most broadly on t:he fourth 



armipes, $. and fifth segments ; meso- and meta- 



, ^ „ . „ , sterna and abdomen beneath broadlv 



laterally mtuscated ; intermediate and posterior legs pale oclira- 



ceous, bases of femora and bases and apices of tibia) a Uttle 



darker ; posterior lobe of pronotum granulate ; abdomen in female 



dilated on each side, especially at fourtli and fifth sec^ments • 



kiteral spmes to posterior pronotal lobe finely spinouslv irroduced 



in male, shorter and more broadlv so in female. 



Length 10 milhm. 



Hah. Ceylon (Green), 



