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mens they are snow-white, sharply contrasting with the black tarsi 

 especially vvhen viewed from the under side, in other spécimens 

 the colonr shades into waxy white. 



SYNONYMICA.L NOTES. 



Darvela expansa Schmidt (1911), described as a new genus and 

 species, is the female of Kennetus alces Dist. (1904). 



Pleetropoda fPlectrocnemiaJ Rothschildi Court. (1907) is identical 

 with P. bicolor Hagl. (1895). 



Fam. NEIDIDiE 



MECxALOMERIUM TENERRIMUM n. sp. 



Pallide testaceum, abdomine intuscato, basin versus dilute testa- 

 ceo, apice articuli rostri primi quartique et tertio toto, margine 

 interiore partis prolongatai corii apiceque tibiarum fuscis, annulo 

 prope basin articuli primi antennarum, articulo harum quarto, 

 apice late albo excepto, articulisque duobus ultimis tarsorum nigris, 

 membrana hyalina. Caput lobo postico pronoti subœque longum, 

 ante impressionem transversam anteocellarem longitudinaliter plus 

 minusve convexum, tylo arcu.ito-deflexo, ocellis inter se quam ab 

 oculis longius distantibus, rostro coxas posticas paullum superante, 

 articulo primo basin capitis attingente, antennis corpore longiori- 

 bus, articulo primo sequentibus duobus unitis paullulo breviore, 

 apice paullo oblongo-incrassato, secundo tertio paullo longiore, 

 quarto tertio circiter triplo breviore, latiuscule fusiformi. Prono- 

 tum cum pleuris crebre minute granulatum, latitudine dimidio lon- 

 gius, lateribus subtiliter marginatum, marginibus apicali et basali 

 subrectis, hoc anguste depresso et reflexo, lobo antico horizontali, 

 impressione (vel saltem depressione) transversa prsedito, lobo 

 postico antico duplo et dimidio longiore, modice convexo-declivi, 

 antrorsum leviter angustato, lateribus non nisi levissime rotundato, 

 paullo ante basin tuberculis tribus humilibus obtusis in lineam 

 transversam ordinatis (uno medio, uno utrinque prope angulos 

 latérales) prsedito, disco carina subtili e tuberculo medio ad apicem 

 lobi extensa instructo. Scutellum ad basin spina suberecta armatum. 

 Orificia in cornu longum fragile e rectum apice retrorsum curvatum 

 continuata. Hemelytra tota pellucida, apicem abdominis paullum 

 superantia, margine apicali corii mox ante partem prolonga- 

 tam introrsum dentato-angulato. Abdomen subtus impunctatum, 

 segmento basali medio longitudinaliter profunde sulcato. Femora 

 apice oblongo clavata, postica apicem abdominis nonnihil supe- 

 rantia; tibise omnes femoribus multo longiores. Long, tf 5 mill. 



S. W. Madagascar (\ndranohinaly). 



