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KEDUVIID^. 



1323. Irantha consobrina, sp. n. 



2 . Allied to /. armijies, but much paler in hue, ochraceous, 

 head fuscous ; spines to head and anterior lobe of pronotum very 

 much longer ; lateral abdominal margins at fourth and fifth 

 segments angularly produced ; the lateral posterior pronotal angles 

 more angularly produced tlian in the corresponding sex of /. armipes. 



Length 10 millim. 



Hab. Nilgii'i Hills (Hanq^son). 



Genus POLIDIDUS. 



Tolididus, SfSl, Of v. J'lt.-Ak. lor/t. 1858, p. 448 : En. Hem. iv, p. 

 (1874). 



Type, P. ft2nnosisswn(s, Stfil, an Ethiopian species. 



DIstri/mtion. Oriental, Ethiopian, and Australasian Eegions ; also 

 found in China. 



Body moderately elongate : femora, head above and beneath, 

 pronotum, scutellum, and abdominal margins spinose ; scutellum 

 with three spines ; margins of abdomen thickly spinulose, the spines 

 at angles of segments longest ; head with the post ocular a little 

 longer than the anteocular area ; cellular areas of the membrane 

 elongated ; first joint of antennao and anterior femora subequal in 

 length ; first joint of rostrum distinctly longer than the second, 

 first joint longer tlian anteocular ]iortion of head. 



Fio-. 'IW.—rotiduhi.s unnaf/s.^imiis. 



1324. Polididus armatissimus, >StcV, Off. Vet.-Ak. Fdr/i.lS69,ip.S76. 



Pale brownish-ochraceous : abdomen beneath with a piceous 



sublateral fascia on each side ; sternum infuscated and greyishly 



