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Genus LIMOIS. 



Limois, Stal, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxiv, p. 230 (1863) ; id. Hem. Afr. iv, 

 p. 134 (1866) : Athins. J. A. S. Beng. liv, p. 141 (1885). 



Type, L. ivestwoodi, Hope. 



Distribution. Britisli India. 



Head much narrower than tlie pronotum, slightly upwardly 

 protuberant ; face with the margins carinate and with two central 

 longitudinal ridges or cariuations, narrowed anteriorly, a little 

 dilated at posterior angles, elypeus medially carinate, vertex 

 ti-ansverse ; pronotum twice as broad as head and slightly longer, 

 posteriorly broadly truncate, its lateral angles moderately sub- 

 acutely produced, and with a subobsolete medial carination ; meso- 

 notum longer than pronotum, with three discal carinations, the 

 middle one straight, the others curved ; tegmina elongate, a little 

 ampliated towards apices, which are obtusely obliquely rounded, 

 the venation beyond base more or less reticulate ; wings much 

 shorter than tegmina, sinuate on posterior margins, venation on 

 apical areas reticulate ; posterior tibiae with five spines. 



1710. Limois westwoodi, Hope (Lysti-a), Tr. Linn. Soc. xix, p. 133, 

 t. xii, f. 3 (1845) ; Stal (Limois), Sfett. ent. Zeit. xxiv, p. 231 

 (1863) ; Atkifis. J. A. S. Beny. liv, p. 142 (1885). 



Head, pronotum. and mesonotum olivaceous; apex of pro- 

 tuberance to head, two central broken fasciae to pronotum, disk 



of mesonotum (excluding 

 ridges), on each side of which 

 are three spots on anterior 

 margin, and an angulated 

 spot on each lateral area, 

 black ; abdomen black, the 

 segmental margins narrowly 

 olivaceous ; body beneath 

 and legs piceous or black, 

 legs and I'ostrum annulated 

 with dull ochraceous ; tegmina with about basal half and costal 

 area pale olivaceous, opaque, remaining area hyaline wdth the 

 venation fuscous, the whole area with small piceous spots, which 

 are largest on the olivaceous area and on the posterior margin a 

 little beyond it ; wings with rather more than basal halves 

 sanguineous, outwardly concavely margined with fuscous, apical 

 area hyaline with the venation fuscous ; the a[)ical and pos- 

 terior margins fuscous, and with two or three black spots on the 

 sanguineous area. 



Length excl. tegm. 12^ to 13 ; exp. tegm. 47 to 48 millim. 

 Hah. Sylhet. 



Limois wcstiuoodi. 



