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neiivum luteous ; body beneath and legs pale purplish-brown, 

 lateral and segmental margins of sternum, transverse central, 

 sublateral, and marginal abdominal spots, coxae and central area of 

 mesonotum, luteous ; abdomen above pale purplish. 



Length 24 to 27 ; breadth 14 to 17 milhm. 



Hah. Assam (Atlinson Coll.). Tenasserim ; Mooleyit, Thagata 

 (Feci). — A common Malayan species. 



432. Pycanum ochraceum, Blst. A. 31. N.H. (6) xi,p. 433 (1893). 



Pale uniform ochraceous ; antennae black, with the basal joint 

 and extreme apex of the fourth joint ochraceous ; lateral margins 

 of the head black ; pronotum with the lateral margins moderately 

 ampliated and rounded, as in P. ruhens ; scutellum with the apical 

 margin stramineous ; membrane very pale brassy-brown ; con- 

 nexivum spotted with stramineous at the bases of the segments ; 

 body beneath resplendent violaceous or greenish, with a longi- 

 tudinal central fascia, the lateral margins, sternal segmental 

 margins and curved fasciae on each side, and the legs ochraceous ; 

 femoral apical spines blackish ; abdomen above bluish-black, with 

 two broken, narrow, central, longitudinal, ochraceous fasciae. 



Length 24 to 28; breadth 14 to 16 milhm. 



Hah. Sikhim {Ind. Mus.) ; Darjeeling (Coll. Dist.). Assam; 

 Khasi Hills (Chemiell) ; Naga Hills (Doherty) ; Margherita (Ind. 

 Mus.). Burma: Karennee (Fm). 



433. Pycanum ponderosum, Stal, Ofc. Vet.-Ah. Fdrh. 1854, p. 234 ; 



id. op. cit. 1856, p. 63, pi. 1 a, f. 1. 

 Dalcantha saucti fargavii, Veil. Tijdschi-. Ent. Ked. Lid. (2) i.p. 218, 

 pi. xi, f. 6 (1866). 



Dull obscure luteous above and beneath ; antennae, extreme 

 lateral margins of head and pronotum, and legs piceous or black ; 

 apex of scutellum and the connexivum pale luteous, the last with 

 large blackish spots ; membrane very pale brassy-brown. The 

 shape of the pronotum in a general way resembles that of Matiiphus 

 ohlongits, the anterior angles being quadrately produced and 

 reflexed ; but P. ponderosum is separated from the genus Maitiphus 

 by its metasternum having no elevated central plate. 



Length 28 to 35 ; breadth 20 to 21 millim. 



Hah. Sikhim (Ind. Mus.). Assam (Atkinson Coll.). Southern 

 1\\^\& (Coll. Dist.). Burma (Coll. Dist.). Tenasserim; Malewoon 

 (Fea). — Also received from the Malay Peninsula. 



Genus DALCANTHA. 



Dalcantha, Amy. ^- Serv. Hem. p. 170 (1843) ; Stdl, Rem. Afr. i, 

 p. 225 (1864). 



Type, D. dilatata, Amy. & Serv. 

 Distrihution. India. 



Head somewhat short and broad, lateral lobes longer than the 



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