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Genus OCHROCHIRA. 



Oclirochira, Stal, En. Hem. iii, p. 39 (1873) ; Dist, A. M. N. H. 

 (6) xii, p. 121 (1893). 



Type, 0. albiditarsis, "VVestw. 



Distribution. Himalayas, Assam, Burma, Borueo, China, and 

 Japan. 



Differs from Mygdonia by the uon-tuberculate abdomen in the 

 male ; the posterior tibioe are less dilated : the fourth joint of the 

 antennae is longer than the third ; the lateral angles of the pro- 

 notum moderatelv dilated. 



555. OchrocMra albiditarsis, WesUv. (Myctis) in Hope Cat. ii, p. 11 

 (1842) ; Stdl, En. Hem. iii, p. 44 (18/3). 



Ferruginous, finely greyishly pilose ; 

 brane dark cupreous ; apical joint 



antennse, legs, and niem- 

 of antenna?, anterior and 

 intermediate tihise, and the 

 tarsi ochraeeous ; antennae 

 with the first, second, and 

 third joints finely hirsute, 

 the fourth more slender and 

 pilose; pronotum with the 

 lateral margins stronglv 

 and coarsely dentate, the 

 lateral angles prominently 

 produced ; posterior femora 

 in male incrassated, with 

 a prominent spine beneath 

 near centime, the apex of 

 which is ochraeeous, and 

 with a small apical cluster 

 of short spines or teeth ; 

 posterior tibise in male 



moderately dilated on both sides, inwardly angulated near base ; 



sternum with an obscure oblique ochraeeous fascia. 

 Length 23 ; breadth between pronotal angles 8 millim. 

 Hah. Simla (CoU. Dist.). Sylhet {Stockholm Miis.). 



Fig. 208. — Oclirochira albiditarsis, (^ . 



556. Ochrochira aberrans, Dist. (Priouolomia) Ent. Month. Mag. 

 XXV, p. 230 (1889) ; id. A. M. N. H. (6) xii, p. 121 (1893). 



Mcde. Dark brownish; antennas (apical joint mutilated in type), 

 membrane, and legs dark fuscous ; all the tarsi and the anterior 

 and intermediate tibiae dark ochraeeous : body beneath chocolate- 

 brown ; antennae with the basal joint longer than the second, 

 which is also longer than the thii'd ; pronotum Avith the lateral 

 margins finely and obtusely serrated, the lateral angles angularly 

 produced and slightly directed upward, the base transversely 

 channelled ; scutellum very prominently and coarsely wrinkled at 



