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COREID.^. 



54G. Helcomeria spinosa, Su/n. (Petascelis) Ann. Soo. Ent. Fr. 1851, 

 p. 123, pi. iv, f. 4. 

 Greyish-brown or brownish-ochraceous ; autenuse hirsute, apical 

 joint slender, pilose ; anterior margins of the pronotum strongly 



Fig. 203. — Helcomeria spinom, 2 . 



spined, lateral margins of the dilated processes less strongly and 

 more irregularly spinous, upper prouotal surface finely tuberculate, 

 rut^ose', and centrally prominently «-rinkled on disk ; scute! lum 

 pilose, with an apical recurved black tubercle ; corium pilose ; mem- 

 brane cupreous, somewhat irregularly ochraceously pilose ; con- 

 nexivum cupreous, ochraceously pilose, particularly at the bases 

 of the segments ; posterior femora strongly tuberculate in both 

 sexes, in the male strongly spined beneath before apex ; posterior 

 tibife dilated on both sides, inwardly spined in male, intermediate 

 and anterior tibise only outwardly dilated. 



Length 34 to 38 ; breadth between pronotal angles 19 to 19| 

 millim. 



Hah. Sikhim {Iml. Mus.) ; Assam ; Margherita {Dolierty) ; Naga 

 Hills {Ind. Mus.); Khasi Hills {Chennell), 



Genus PRIONOLOMIA. 



Priouolomia, Stdl, En. Hem. iii, p. 37 (1873). 



Type, P. malaya, Stal, a Malaccan species. 



Distribution. N.E. India, Burma ; Malay Peninsula, Malayan 

 Archipelago. 



From Helcomeria this genus may be distinguished by the absence 

 of the lobate process to the subapieal upper surface of the femora, 



