PRIONOLOMIA. 



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find by the nou-tuberculate apex of the scutellum ; the first joiut 

 of the autenn'ce is not lougei- than the fourth ; the posterior tibia; 

 are moderately dilated and iu the male denticulate ou the iuuer 

 .side ; posterior femora iu the male with a stroug spine before 

 apex, and above lougitudinally tuberculate ; abdomen unarmed. 



547. Prionolomia gigas, Dist. A. M. N. H. (5) iii, p. 1:28 (1879); 

 Bredd. Deutsch. ent. Zeitschr. 1900, p. 169. 



Castaueous ; head, prouotum, scutellum, and corium more or less 

 greyishly pilose; antennae pale castaueous, second and third joints 



Fig. 201. — Frlonoloinia gigas, (^ . 



a little darker at apices, third and fourth 3oiuts with their basal 

 areas pale ochraceous ; prohotum rugose, obscurely granulate, 

 lateral angles very prominent, produced some\^'hat upward and 

 forward, gradually narrowed to apex, with the margins strongly 

 serrate, a transverse impression a little before anterior margin, 

 and a similar impression with a small tubercle at each end near 

 posterior margin ; scutellum with extreme apex luteous; corium 

 obscurely blackly granulate ; membrane brassj'-brown ; sternum 

 with an oblique ^^•hitish or luteous fascia on each lateral area ; 

 posterior femora above with black tubercles, in the male pro- 

 minently spined beneath near apex ; posterior tibicC pi'omineutly 

 dilated ou both sides, in the male strongly augulate beyond middle 

 on the inner side, in the female rounded, entire. 



Length 43 ; breadth betweeo pronotal angles 19 millim. 



Hah. Khasi Hills (ChenneU). Burma ; Kai'ennee {Fea ; Doliertij). 

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