-io2 PE^'TATOMID.E, \ 



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by tiie abdomeu being practically unarmed at base, or having the 

 second segment produced in a short obtuse tubercle ; the lateral 

 lobes of the head are scarcely longer than the central and do not 

 meet beyond it ; the pronotum is also distinctly elongate and 

 narrowed anteriorly, much longer than its width at anterior 

 mai'gin ; the anterior tibioe are not dilated ; anterior femora 

 prominently spined before apex ; anterior tibia) distinctly spined 

 on inner margin. 



39!). Picromerus obtusus, ira/k. Cat. Jlef. \, p. 133 (18(37). 

 Picromerus nifjrivitta, M'alk. loc. cit. 



Fuscous-brown, thickly and minutely punctate, beneath with 

 legs a little paler ; antenna) ochraceous, apex of third joint and 

 the fourth and fifth joints black, bases of fourth and fifth 

 ochraceous ; pronotum with the lateral margins crenulate, pronotal 

 angles black, produced very slightly backwardly at apices which 



Fig. 15'J. — riciximerus ohtitsus. 



are emarginate, the anterior spine much the longest ; corium more 

 opaque and less punctate, the costal area moderately rugulose : 

 abdomen beneath with a more or less well-defined central black 

 fascia ; femora darkly speckled ; tibia) paler, their apices and the 

 tarsi black. 



Length 11 to 13: breadth between pronotal angles 7| millim. 



Hah. .Sikhim (Athuison Coll.). Naga Hills (Doherty). Burma ; 

 Karennee (Fea). 



Genus AUDINETIA.) A-ci-^*^^^ 



Audinetia, Mleni: Xaf. Tijdschr. Xedcrl. Ind. xxiv, p. 13G (186i') ; 

 sm, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1867, p. 496. 



Type, ui. spinidens., Fabr. 



Distribution. Neotropical, Ethiopian, Oriental, and Australasian 

 Regions. 



Body elongate ; head somewliat long, lateral lobes very slightly 



