MUSCANDA, 



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I have not proposed a Division for the reception o£ the two fol- 

 lowing genera, because they differ considerably between themselves, 

 and it is not desirable, except when absolutely necessary, to create a 

 Division for a single genus. From the Tessaratomaria the genera 

 here following differ in having the posterior margin of the pronotum 

 truncate or concave and not produced over the base of the 

 scutellum ; from the Eusthenaria they may be at once distinguished 

 by the length of the scutellum, which is half, or more than half, the 

 length of the abdomen. 



Genus MUSCANDA. 

 Muscanda, Walk. Cat. Het. iii, p. 57G (1868). 



Type, M. testacea, Walk. 



Distribution. Himalayas. 



Body moderately flat, subovate ; head with the lateral lobes 

 meeting in front of the central lobe, but separate at their apices, their 

 margins upwardly recurved ; antenn8e ^^ ith the basal joint passing 

 the apex of the head ; pronotum slightly concave on the posterioi* 

 margin, ridged between the angles, before which it is deflected to 

 head, angles longly produced, antei-ior lateral margins dentate ; 

 scutellum extending beyond frena, about half the length of abdomen, 

 subtriangular ; corium moderately dilated from a little beyond 

 base and narrowing again to apex ; mesosternum only moderately 

 carinate,the carination neither continued anteriorly nor posteriorly ; 

 metasternum moderately centrally elevated ; abdomen flat, with a 

 slight central ridge ; rostrum not passing the anterior cox^e. 



436. Muscanda testacea, Walk. Cat. Het. iii, p. 677 (1868). 



Pale ochraceous, thickly punctate ; posterior area of the pro- 

 notum and basal area of scutellum rugulose ; antennae obscurely 



Fig. 176. — Muscanda testacea. 



pilose, minutely spotted with black, third joint longer than the 

 second (remaining joints mutilated in the type) ; pronotum -with 



