404 



COEEID.i). 



tubercles prominent, armed with an obscui'e incurved spnie ; 

 rostrum reaching the posterior coxjb or base of metasteruum, the 

 basal joint about reaching the area of the posterior margin of the 

 eyes ; antennae with the first joint shorter than the head, second a 

 little shorter than the first, third joint longest, fourth fusiform ; 

 basal margin of pronotum subtruncated ; posterior femora with 

 their bases slender, incrassated towards their apices, beneath which 

 they are prominently spinous. 



<]G3. Hoplolomia scabricula, Stdl, En. Hem. iii, p. 84 (1S73). 



Head, antenna), pronotum, and scutellum brownish-ochraceous ; 



corium ochraceous, its apical 

 area brownish ; connexivum 

 stramineous, basal half broadly 

 spotted with castaneous, seg- 

 mental marginal apical spines 

 black ; legs ochraceous, pos- 

 terior femora, excluding bases, 

 castaneous ; apices of the tibiae 

 castaneous ; body beneath ob- 

 scure pale castaneous ; pro- 

 notum with two prominent 

 central discal tubercles, lateral 

 angles produced and spinous, 

 lateral margins strongly dentate. 



Length 6| millim. 

 Bhamo {Feci). — Stal's habitat 



Fig. 237. — Hoplolomia scabricula. 



Palon, 



Hah. Burma ; Eangoon 

 was " India Orientalis." 



I am indebted to the kindness of Dr. Tpgve Sjlistedt, of the 

 *Stockholm Museum, for letting me see a typical specimen of this 

 species, which has formed the subject of the abo^e illustration. 



Genus TRALLIANUS, nov. 



Type, T. chennelU, Dist. 



Distribution. Assam. 



Moderately elongate and compressed ; head elongate, subquadrate, 

 robust, moderately produced in front of the antenuiferous tubercles ; 

 ocelli placed a little behind the eyes and about as far apart from 

 them as from each other ; antenuiferous tubercles prominent ; 

 antenna) robust, basal joint incrassate, somewhat compressed, about 

 equal in length to head, subequal in length to fourth joint, second 

 joint longest, longer than third ; rostrum reaching the intermediate 

 coxae, first joint not quite reaching base of head ; eyes inserted 

 on side of head a little beyond base ; pronotum narrowed towards 

 head ; posterior margin slightly sinuate before SQutellum, with a 

 distinct deflected ridge between the lateral angles ; head beneath 

 and sternum centrally sulcated ; legs moderately short and stout, 

 femora unarmed, posterior femora not extending much beyond the 



