Ilcviipterons Fauna of Mudagascctr. 213 



Tlie body and legs arc faintly clotlicd Avith ochreous 

 pile. Abdomen beneath witli a large snbconical tubercle, 

 situated on apex of first and base of second segment, the 

 second segment much widened posteriorly and extending 

 in a rectangidar process nearly across third segment, which 

 is gibbous and slightly and posteriorly produced at apex. 

 The posterior femora are unarmed (with the exception of 

 two small tubercles on inner margin near apex), curved 

 and thickened, about as long as til^ire and 1st joint of tarsi 

 together. The posterior tibiae are dilated internally into a 

 broad tooth a little above centre of imier margin. A sub- 

 marginal, transverse, linear ridge at base of pronotum. 



Long. 27 mill. ; exp. pronot. ang. 15 mill. 



Antananarivo. 



$ . Abdomen somewhat dilated on both sides. Abdo- 

 men beneath unarmed, but second segment slightly pro- 

 duced and rounded at central basal portion over third 

 segment, which is somewhat hollowed on disc. Hind 

 femora very little thickened, and hind tibia3 only slightly 

 dilated on inner margin. 



This species has somewhat a likeness to the forms com- 

 prised in the genus Prionolornia, Stal, but differs at once 

 from that genus in the relative lengths of the I st and 4th 

 antennal joints. After a thorough examination, I have 

 placed it in the genus Mictis, from all other species of 

 which it is easily differentiated by the expanse of the 

 pronotal angles. 



Parnbrachj/tes, nov. gen. 



First joint of antennas a little shorter than 2nd, lono-er 

 than head ; 1 st, 3rd and 4th joints subcqual ; apices of 

 2nd and 3rd joints incrassated, that of 2nd joint nuich 

 more strongly so and pectinated ; pronotal angles mode- 

 rately dilated and -somewhat rounded ; abdomen moderately 

 dilated on each side ; femora spined near apices. 



This genus could be included in Stjil's division BracJiij- 

 tai-ia, by having the 1st joint of tlie antenn;e shorter than 

 the 2nd, and by tlie rostrum reaching only just beyond 

 anterior coxa3, not to middle of mesosternum, but it differs 

 in having the 1st joint longer than the head, as in Stal's 

 division, Daladcraria. It is allied to Brachytea, from 

 which it differs by the much greater relative length of the 

 1st to 2nd joints of antenna;, by the incrassated apices of 



