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apical aunulation pale fuscous ; abdomen above sauguineous, with 

 two small ochi-aceous linear spots at bases of fourth and fifth 

 segments ; connexivum ochraceous, with large fuscous spots at 

 the incisures ; prosternum, anterior and intermediate legs, and 

 posterior tarsi ochraceous ; meso- and metasterna, abdomen 

 beneath, and posterior legs castaneous ; lateral margins of 

 abdomen ochraceous, minutely spotted with fuscous at the 

 incisures ; head beneath and anterior margin of prosternum 

 shining pale olivaceous ; antennte hirsute ; rostrum scarcely ex- 

 tending beyond the anterior coxse ; posterior coxae of males 

 somewhat obscurely spined ; posterior femora in male moderately 

 incrassated, with an elongate spine a little beyond middle of 

 under surface. 



Length 18 to 21 millim. 



Hah. Khasi Hills (Chennell). Sikhim ; Mungphu (AtJcbison 

 Coll.). Burma ; Karennee (Fea). 



The following genus Distantidea evidently requires a fresh 

 Division of the Coreinae for its reception. The position of the 

 acetabula allies it with the Cloresmaria, while the peculiar odori- 

 ferous processes reach the anterior margin of the metasternum, 

 thus approaching the Colpuraria, with which it has much in 

 common. The length of the rostrum, the sulcated mesosternum, 

 and the peculiar structure of the odoriferous apertures prove 

 its isolation from both those Divisions, and seem to point to 

 an intermediate position between them. 



Genus DISTANTIDEA. 



Distantidea, Kirkadly, J. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiv (1902). 



Type, D. veclda, Kirkaldy. 



Distribution. Ceylon. 



Head long, eyes well detached from anterior margin of the pro- 

 notum ; antennae with the first joint longer than the head and 

 shorter than the second ; rostrum very long, almost reaching the 

 apex of the abdomen in the male, a little shorter in the female ; 

 pronotum with the anterior angles prominent, the lateral angles 

 rounded, the lateral margins sinuate and obsoletely crenulate,: 

 niesosternuni centrally profoundly sulcate ; posterior acetabula 

 with their exterior margins strongly out of line with those of the 

 preceding acetabula ; membrane with the veins numerous and 

 subreticulate, 



623. Distantidea vedda, Kirhcddy, J. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiv, pi. A 

 f. 13 (1902). 



Ochraceous, speckled with fuscous ; bases of the second and 

 third joints of the antennse, and a central annulation to the 

 fourth joint, luteous ; abdomen above pale sanguineous, connex- 



