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didly piceous shaded with black and with a large pale basai spot; 

 legs black, coxae and extrême bases of anterior femora sanguineous; 

 hemelylra pale bronzy-brown, coriuin dislinctly longitadinally 

 grooved, membrane finely wrinkled; head about as long as prono- 

 tum, postocular area a Utile longer and broader than anteocular 

 area, with two prominent tubercles just beliind the transverse 

 impression between the eyes; antennae with the first joint black 

 about as long as the anterior femora (remaing joints mutilated in 

 typical spécimen; pronotum centrally longitadinally impressed on 

 anterior lobe, centrally and broadly impressed on posterior lobe, the 

 posterior angles u little prominent and nodalose, the posterior mar- 

 gin not quite straight, a little concave; rostrum with the first joint 

 reaching eyes, shorter than second joint; membrane considerably 

 passing abdominal apex; femora regularly nodulose; legs somewhat 

 longly pilose. 



Length 8 mill. 



Hab. : Mergui (coll. Dist.). 



Macracanthopsis nigripes sp. n. — Head pronotum, scutel- 

 lum and body beneath luteous; antenmc and spines behind their 

 base, eyes, hemelylra, legs and latéral margins of abdomen beneath, 

 black; abdomen beneath more stramineous than luteous; antennae 

 with the first joint as long as the head, pronotum and scutellum 

 togeiher; head about as long as pronotum, transversely impressed 

 between the eyes, spines behind base of antennse long, obliquely 

 upwardly directed, first joint of rostrum much shorter than second, 

 second about as long as first and third together; pronotum with the 

 anterior lobe tumid and centrally impressed, posterior lobe cen- 

 trally foveately impressed, the impression not reaching the posterior 

 margin ; anterior femora moderately incrassated and nodulose, 

 apices of intermediate and posterior femora nodulose. 



Lengt 8 1/2 mill. 



Hab. : ïravancore ; Pallode near Trivandrum and Maddathoray, 

 VV. Ghats (Annandale). 



AUied to M. nodipes Reut. but smaller, first joint of antennae 

 longer, spines behind antennal bases also a little longer and more 

 slender, legs black, etc. 



Macracanthopsis Hampsoni sp. n — Head, pronotum and 

 scutellum pale ochraceous; two central longitudinal Unes to head 

 from ocelli to base, and a broad sublateral fascia on each side of 

 pronotum black; body beneath and legs stramineous, abdomen 

 beneath with a longitudinal sublateral black fascia, the legs obscure 



