BTESODEPSUS. 287 



Length 15 to 18 ; greatest breadth 9 to 10 milliui. 

 Hah. Sikhiin. Assam; Margherita (/«<:?. il/^fs.). Andaman Islds. ; 

 Port Blair {Meldola). — Also received from Java and Sumatra. 



456. Megymeniim severini, Bergv. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belq. xxxvi, p. 504 



(1892). 



The principal characters relied on by Bergroth appear to be the 

 unarmed head in front of eyes, the second joint of the antennae 

 compressed but not ampliated ; prouotum with a large tubercle 

 on the anterior area ; but specially the lateral margins of the 

 abdomen, which are very broadly dilately lobate at the posterior 

 area of each segment, and are without the intermediate small 

 tubercle of M. parallelum. 



Length 14 to 16 ; greatest breadth 9 to 10 millim. 



Hah. Sikhim {Coll. Dist.). Kurseong {vide Bergroth). 



B. Head ivith the manjins distincth/ spined hefore the eyes. 



457. Megymeiium subpiirpurascens, West^v. (Platydius) Zool. Joum. 

 X, p. 446, pi. 22, f. 8 (1834) ; Stdl, En. Hem. i, p. 87 (1870). 

 Megymenum cupreum, Guer. Voy. Coquille, Zool., Ins. ii, pt. 2, p. 172 

 (1838) ; Herr.-Schaff. (Amaurus) Wanz. Ins. v, p. 61, f. 503 (1839). 

 Megymenum meratii, Le Gillou, Rev. Zool. p. 261 (1841). 



Cupreous or brassy black ; membrane ochraceous, posteriorly 

 infuscated ; bead with the lateral margins prominently spined in 

 front of eyes; antennae with the second and,third joints compressed 

 and furrowed ; pronotum with the anterior angles spinous, the 

 anterior lateral mai-gins concave, truucately produced from before 

 middle to base, its outer margin finely and obscurely crenulate and 

 the anterior and posterior angles moderately prominent; abdominal 

 margins moderately tuberculate at the incisures, and obsoletely 

 tuberculate between them. 



Length 13| to 15 ; greatest breadth 8 to 9 millim. 



Hah. '!^jVaet {vide Atkinson). Burma; Bhamo, Kareunee, Palon 

 {Fea). — A common Malayan species. 



Genus BYRSODEPSUS. 



Byrsodepsus, StSJ, En. Hem. ii, p. 130 (1872). 



Type, B. coriarius, Stal. 



Bistrihution. India, Burma, Sumatra. 



Body narrowly oval or subelongate, above moderately, beneath 

 strongly convex ; head not much more than half the length of 

 pronotum, on each side sinuated, before the eyes moderately 

 rounded, lateral lobes much louger than the central lobe, their 

 apices separate and obliquely subtruncate ; prouotum transversely 

 impressed near centre, lateral margins straight and anteriorly 

 obtusely crenulate; scutellum much shorter than pronotum; mem- 

 brane with three or four basal areolas or cells; mesosternum 



