MEGAC(ELUM. 



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with the basal angles and two central fasciiB piceous ; corium 

 purplish-brown, thickly covered with small bright ocln-aceous 

 spots, a larger spot at apex of clavus and the inner margin 

 nnspotted, a dark purplish spot on apical margin near inner angle, 

 cuneus shining piceous ; membrane greyish-brown, the veiiis 

 ochraceous, their margins, apical margin, and some discal oblique 

 streaks purplish-brown ; body beneath ochraceous with piceous 

 shadings ; legs purplish-brown, femora and tibiae annulated with 

 Inteous ; antennae brownish-ochraceous, apices of the joints 

 infuscated. 



Length 74 to Og millim. 



Hah. Assam ; Margherita (Z'o/u!/-^/). Burma; Kareunee(Fert). — 

 Siam and Malacca {Bvit. Mas.). 



Genus MEGACCELUM. 



Megacoelum, Fieh. Wim. cut. Monats. ii, p. 305 (IS-jS); Stdl, 

 Hem. Afr. iii, p. 18 (1865) ; lietit. Act. Soc. Sc. Fenn. xxiii, 

 no. 2, p. 230 (1897). 



Creoutiades, Dist. Biol. Cenfr.-Amcr., Rhynch. i, p. 237 (1883). 



Pautiliodes, Noimlh. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1893, p. 15. 



Umslouogas, Kirk. Tr. E. 8. 1902, p. 254. 



Kang-ra, Kirk. Tr. E. S. 1902, p. 257. 



Type, M. infusum, Herr.-Sch., a Palsearctic species. 

 Distrihution. Palsearctic, Nearctic, Neotropical, Ethioi)ian, 

 Oriental, and Australasian Regions. 



Body elongate ; head moderately and obliquely deflected before 

 eyes, and with a distinct narrow central longitudinal snlcation ; 

 eyes somewhat prominent and contiguous to the anterior margin 



of the pronotum ; antennae 

 about as long as the body, basal 

 joint stontest, as long as 

 the head or longer, and 

 sparingly but prominently hir- 

 sute, second joint about twice 

 the length of the first, some- 

 what slender, slightly curved, 

 and a very little incrassated at 

 apex, third joint a little shorter 

 than second, fourth about 

 half the length of third or 

 less; pronotum subtriangular, 

 with a distinct narrow anterior 

 collar, the anterior margin 

 about half the width of pos- 

 terior ; scutellum large, its disk 

 somewhat longitudinally raised 

 and the lateral margins ob- 

 liquely rounded ; corium with the lateral margins subparallel ; 

 legs long, sparingly hirsute, the tibia) with long and prominent 

 setae ; posterior tarsi with the joints variable in length ; rostrum 

 reaching or passing the posterior coxae. 



Fig. 274. — Mcyucoelum antennatum. 



