OElGANAtrS. 



271 



beneath golden yellow ; legs pale fulvous brown ; antennae darker, 

 with the apex of the third and base of the fourth joints yellow or 

 orange ; remainder of fourth joint black." {Dallas.) 



Fig. 170. — Maftiphus oblonyus 



Length 'lo to 27 milliui. 



Hah. North India {Brit. Mus.). 



Dallas's type is here figured. 



Genus ORIGANAUS. 

 Origanaus, Dist. A. M. N. H. (6) xi, p. 4:32 (1893). 



Type, 0. humerosus, Dist. 



Distrihution. Assam Hills. 



Body moderately elongate and narrowed towards apex ; head 

 about as long as wide at base (including the eyes); rostrum 

 slightly passing the anterior coxae ; antennae with the basal joint 

 not quite reaching apex of head, second joint considerably longer 

 than third ; pronotum laterally and angularly dilated ; abdomen 

 with the apices of the apical segment moderately and angulately 

 produced, but not reaching the apex of the anal appendage : 

 presternum deeply sulcate, mesosternum with a flat central oval 

 elevation, which is somewhat broadly sulcated toAvards the anterior 

 coxae ,; metasternum with a broad central flat elevation, reaching 

 the nitermediate coxae and narrowed and rounded in front ; second 

 abdominal segment centrally slightly tuberculous. 



427. Origanaus humerosus, Dist. A. M. N. H. (6) xi, p. 433 

 (1893). 



Very dark purplish-brown ; eyes, legs, and body beneath 

 ochraceous or pale castaneous (in fresh specimens the body is 

 evidently pale resplendent green) ; pronotal angles broadly and 

 subtruncately produced, and from their apices the lateral margins 



