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emarginate before the lateral angles, rendering them nearh^ 

 straight in front ; they are prominent, moderately long, and 

 slightly obtnse at the tips. Under surface paler, mottled and 

 speckled all over with black ; ventral surface of abdomen with 

 obsolete blackish markings, and sometimes with a zigzag row of 

 blackish markings on each side. Legs, especially femora, distinctly 

 marked with black dots.'" (Kirby.) 



Length 11 : breadth between pronotal angles 7 millim. 



Hab. Ceylon ; Pundaloya (Green). 



243. Ochrophara montana, Bist. Tr. E. S. 1900, p. 165. 



Ochraceous, somewhat thickly and more darkly punctate ; lateral 

 margins of the corium, apex of scntellum, and a faint or broken 

 central fascia to same, body beneath, legs, rostrum, and antennae 

 pale ochraceous ; fourth and fifth joints of antennae reddish-ochra- 

 ceous. Body elongate ; second joint of antennse shorter than the 

 third, third and fifth subequal in length, fourth a little longest ; 

 pronotnm with a narrow- levigate impression, posterior angles 

 obtusely subprominent ; membrane pale greyish. 



Length 12-13 ; breadth between pronotal angles ok millim. 



Hab. Naga Hills (Chennell). Central Provinces ; Chanda. 

 Burma : Tavoy. Karen Hills (DoJiertij) ; Bhamo, Karennee (Feu). 



This species is structurally remarkable in having the pronotal 

 angles either obtusely rounded' or provided with a short acute 

 forwardly-directed spine, which in some specimens is on one angle 

 only. 



The species is also a forest-pest. Mr. L. de Niceville forwarded 

 to me specimens for identification and wrote : — " In Chanda (Cen- 

 tral Provinces) reported to be doing immense damage over 1200 

 square miles of country to the bamboo-seed crop. As is generally 

 known, the bamboo but seldom flowers, and when it does — often 

 after a famine — the seed is a valuable food for the starving people." 

 Mr. E. P. 8tebbing, Forest Entomologist to the Grovernment of 

 India, has given the same report and forwarded specimens. He 

 identifies the bamboo as Dendrocalamus strictus. 



Genus PARAMECUS. 

 Paramecus, Fieber, Ithynchotographia, p. 34 (1851). 



Type, P. riijicorms, Eieb. 



Distribution. At present recorded only from India. 



Body elongate, somewhat convex ; head elongate, almost equally 

 broad throughout ; lateral lobes somewhat longer than the central 

 lobe, their margins rounded; antenna) with the third joint shortest; 

 rostrum stout, extending beyond the intermediate coxte; pronotum 

 hexagonal, convex between the humeral angles, which are prominent 

 and furnished with a small tooth ; corium narrowed at the apex, 

 longer than the scutellum. 



A genus unknown to the writer, but apparently belonging to 

 this Division. 



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