422 



BBEYTIDjE. 



more or less concavely excavate ; antennae with the basal joint 

 longest and with its apex incrassated, second shorter than 



third, fourth very short and 

 ^ ' moderately incrassate; rostrum 



with the first joint reaching 

 eyes, second joint longest ; legs 

 with the anteiior and inter- 

 mediate femora and tibiae almost 

 sLibequal in length, posterior 

 tibiae much longer than pos- 

 terior femora, apices of femora 

 moderately clavate. 



686. Paleologus feanus, sp. n. 



Pale ochraceous,legs luteous; 

 pronotum with two tubercular 

 spots on anterior lobe, and 

 with three longitudinal pale 

 luteous levigate fasciae, one 

 central and two lateral, on 

 posterior lobe ; pronotum, cla- 

 vus, and corium distinctly 

 thickly punctate, lateral mar- 

 gins of corium palely levigate ; 

 membrane large, palely infus- 

 cated ; abdomen above and 

 beneath testaceous ; sternum 

 • coarsely punctate. Structural 

 characters as detailed in generic 

 diagnosis. 



Length 10 millim. 



Hob. Burma; Karennee(i^<?a). 

 Fig. 2'^!.— Paleologus feanus. 



Genus MET ACANTHUS. 



Metacanthus, Costa, Atti Ac. Nap. 1848, p. 258 ; Fieb. Eur. Hem. 



p. 213 (1861) ; Saund. Hem. Het. Brit. Islds. p. 65 (1892). 

 Armaiius, 3fids. 4- Hey. Pun. France, Cor. p. 187 (1870). 



Type, M. elegans, Curtis, a Palaearctic species. 



Bisiribution. Palaearctic and Oriental Regions. 



Elongate, sides of the head behind the eyes subparallel, vertes 

 raised and convex ; antennae long and slender, first joint with the 

 apex clavate, second and third subequal, apical short and thickened ; 

 pronotum convexly liaised and trituberculate posteriorly ; scutellum 

 with a long curved spine arising from near its base ; clavus very 

 short and apical margin of the corium very long, membrane large ; 

 legs very long and slender, femora clavate at apices. 



