ELASMOMIA. 



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Genus ELASMOMIA. 

 Elasmomia, Stdl, En. Hem. iii, p. 38 (1873). 



Type, E. granulipes, Westw. 



Distrihxition. Eastern Himalayas and Sylhet. 



Allied to Prionolomia, but with the first joint of the antennae 

 longer than the fourth ; posterior tibite in the male neither am- 

 pliated nor dentated ; posterior femora in male armed on the 

 inner side with a somewhat long spine. 



551. Elasmomia granulipes, Westw. (Myctis) in Hope Cat. n, p. 11 

 (1842) ; Stdl, En. Hem. iii, p. 41 (1873). 



Ferruginous ; apical joint of antennae, excluding extreme base, 

 ochraceous ; pronotum with the lateral margins moderately reflexed 



Fig. 205. — Elasmomia granulipes, cj". 



and serrate, the lateral angles horizontally produced with their 

 apices subacute : body above obscurely pilose ; central incision on 

 anterior area of head very distinct ; femora in male incrassated, 

 sparsely tuberculate inside, somewhat prominently spined before 

 apex ; in the female these femora are much less developed ; poste- 

 rior tibiae moderately ampliated, but neither dilated nor angulate. 



Length 21 to 25 ; breadth between pronotal angles 8 to 10 millim. 



Hah. Sikhim {Coll. Dist. (^- Ind. Mus.). 



552. Elasmomia ? serrata, Sujn. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1882, p. Ixiv. 



I have not seen this species. It is described as differing from 

 E. (jranulipes by the pronotum being toothed (" dentele "), by the 

 absence of granulations to the posterior femora, and by the 

 presence, in the male, of a triangular dentation on the inner side 

 of the posterior tibiae at about one-third from base. 



Length 22 ; breadth between pronotal angles 9| millim 



Hah. Sylhet {Signoret Coll., Vienna Mus.). 



From the structure of the posterior tibiae, as above detailed, this 

 species seems scarcely to belong to the genus Elasmomia. 



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